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free association

noun

, Psychoanalysis.
  1. 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

  1. psychoanal a method of exploring a person's unconscious by eliciting words and thoughts that are associated with key words provided by a psychoanalyst
  2. a spontaneous mental process whereby ideas, words, or images suggest other ideas, etc, in a nonlogical chain reaction
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of free association1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

The requirement, they said, chills the protected First Amendment speech of their donors and violates their right to free association.

These 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.

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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."

It is not free association, but the forms of association which they would impose upon us.

We have developed toward individualism and control rather than toward free association under leadership.

The working-men obtained a right previously restricted to the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, the right of free association.

What was the attitude of mind in allowing this free association between Isabel and me?

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