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.
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How to use free association in a sentence
The requirement, they said, chills the protected First Amendment speech of their donors and violates their right to free association.
Supreme Court strikes down Calif. law requiring charities to disclose top donors to attorney general | Robert Barnes | July 1, 2021 | Washington PostThese issues are tied up in the incentives and structures of the traditional media environment, the simultaneous weakness and power of US political parties, and really hard issues of privacy and free association.
The attack on the Capitol is fueling a backlash against social media | Aaron Pressman | January 8, 2021 | FortuneNon 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 Bastiat
We 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 EngelsWhat 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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