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free association: see association association, in psychology, a connection between different sensations, feelings, or ideas by virtue of their previous occurrence together in experience. The concept of association entered contemporary psychology through the empiricist philosophers John Locke, George ..... Click the link for more information. ; psychoanalysis psychoanalysis, name given by Sigmund Freud to a system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders. Psychoanalysis began after Freud studied (1885–86) with the French neurologist J. M. ..... Click the link for more information. . free association [¦frē ə‚sō·sē′ā·shən] (psychology) Spontaneous, consciously unrestricted association of ideas or mental images. A method used in psychoanalysis to gain an understanding of the organization of the content of the mind. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Several pages contain calligraphic curlicues and free-association scribbles that resemble Surrealist experiments with automatic writing, and the dense, screwball mix of lowercase and uppercase letters has been applied with the apparent deliberation of a child learning to print. Yet another album from promiscuously prolific singer-songwriter Adams, ``JCN'' is an almost free-association concoction of classic country moods and surrealistically personal, Gram Parsons-ish lyrics. Bern, a folk-rocker known for scathing free-association, takes on pop, politics, sex and culture. |
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