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= D.: manifester Inhalt.–Es.: contenido manifiesto.–Fr.: contenu manifeste.–I.: contenuto manifesto.–P.: conteúdo manifesto or patente.
Designates the dream before it receives any analytic investigation, as it appears to the dreamer who recounts it. By extension, we speak of the manifest content of any verbal product–from phantasies to literary works–which we intend to interpret according to the analytic method.
The expression ‘’ was introduced by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a) as a correlate to ‘’*. The unqualified ‘content’ is often used to refer to the same thing and contrasted with the ‘dream-thoughts’ or ‘latent dream-thoughts’. For Freud the manifest content is the product of the *, while the latent content is the product of the opposite type of work–*.
This account has been criticised from a phenomenological point of view: Politzer holds that the dream, strictly speaking, can only have one content. On his view, what Freud understands by the manifest content constitutes the descriptive narrative that the subject puts forward at a time when he does not have the full meaning of his dream at his disposal 1.
= D.: Männlichkeit/Weiblichkeit.–Es.: masculinidad/feminidad.–Fr.: masculinité/féminité.–I.: mascolinità/femminilità.–P.: masculinidade/feminidade.
Antithesis taken up by psycho-analysis, which shows that it is much more complex than generally thought: the way the subject situates himself vis-à-vis his biological sex is the variable outcome of a process of conflict.
Freud pointed out the variety of meanings covered by the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’. First, they have a biological significance, which relates the subject to his primary and secondary sexual characteristics; here the concepts have an exact sense, but psycho-analysis has shown that such biological data do not suffice in accounting for psychosexual behaviour. Secondly,