Self-elaboration
noun
1.
an act or instance of elaborating.
2.
the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
3.
something that is elaborated.
4.
Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, especially while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.
elaboration e·lab·o·ra·tion (ĭ-lāb’ə-rā’shən)
n.
The process of working out in detail by labor and study.
The mental process occurring partly during dreaming and partly during the recalling or telling of a dream, by means of which the latent content of the dream is brought into increasingly more coherent and logical order, resulting in the manifest content of the dream.
e·lab’o·rate’ v.
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