free association
the uncensored expression of the ideas, impressions, etc., passing through the mind of the analysand, a technique used to facilitate access to the unconscious.
Origin of free association
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How to use free association in a sentence
Non sequiturista Renata Espinosa plays a game of free association with the Fall 2009 collections.
This is the method of free association, or "Anarchism in intellectual production."
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairIt is not free association, but the forms of association which they would impose upon us.
Essays on Political Economy | Frederic BastiatWe have developed toward individualism and control rather than toward free association under leadership.
The Psychology of Nations | G.E. PartridgeThe working-men obtained a right previously restricted to the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, the right of free association.
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 | Frederick Engels
What was the attitude of mind in allowing this free association between Isabel and me?
Children of the Market Place | Edgar Lee Masters
British Dictionary definitions for free association
psychoanal a method of exploring a person's unconscious by eliciting words and thoughts that are associated with key words provided by a psychoanalyst
a spontaneous mental process whereby ideas, words, or images suggest other ideas, etc, in a nonlogical chain reaction
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