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free association
noun
- the uncensored expression of the ideas, impressions, etc., passing through the mind of the analysand, a technique used to facilitate access to the unconscious.
free association
noun
- 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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of free association1
Example Sentences
One possible next step is a free association - something like the US currently has with Pacific states the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
He has called for a "free association agreement" with the US covering trade and defence which would give Greenland independence but hand the US responsibility for security.
Cook Islands, a self-governing Pacific nation, is in "free association" with New Zealand, which is responsible for the former's foreign affairs and defence.
Such is free association in the age of late capitalism.
He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place.
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