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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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As he extemporaneously free-associates while anchoring war coverage, flamboyantly parsing his words and feelings as if constructing profound haikus, it looks as though he's auditioning for the position of the Nation's Emoter. The scene where he free-associates about the weirdness of human hair while giving a crew cut to a boy immersed in a Dead-Eye Western comic book evokes all the latent terror of barbershops. What you get, in effect, is a performance, a routine of synaptic somersaults in which Dean free-associates on the themes of aliens and UFOs. |
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