0 a method of trying to see how the human mind works, in which a person says the first word that they think of after hearing a word that is spoken to them
In free association and the ink-blot tests they are nearly as good.
The dream, as a rule, merely furnishes the starting-point for free association.
The free association technique begins by trying to think about nothing in a relaxed, tension-free environment.
Self-analysis with its method of free association was initially an activity bound to the desk.
Positioned outside the opera's schemes of repetition, the free association of these motifs suggests that they reflect concepts and ideas rather than actions or agents.
Through the free association of co-operating individuals, town and country and capital and labour achieved harmony.
Then, after some manipulation or other, you perform the identical free association task, using exactly the same stimulus words in the same order.
Others view the new political set-up as the free association of formerly subjugated peoples, the only firm foundation for a democratic, sturdy and stable state.
