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View synonyms for free association
free association
noun
, Psychoanalysis.
- 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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of free association1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
Non sequiturista Renata Espinosa plays a game of free association with the Fall 2009 collections.
From The Daily Beast
This is the method of free association, or "Anarchism in intellectual production."
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It is not free association, but the forms of association which they would impose upon us.
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We have developed toward individualism and control rather than toward free association under leadership.
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The working-men obtained a right previously restricted to the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, the right of free association.
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What was the attitude of mind in allowing this free association between Isabel and me?
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