free association

…he developed the technique of free association. In part an extrapolation of the automatic writing promoted by the German Jewish writer Ludwig Börne a century before, in part a result of his own clinical experience with other hysterics, this revolutionary method was announced in the work Freud published jointly with…

…repressed memories and feelings through free association as well as to examine the repressed wishes released in dreams. See also unconscious.

…based on the technique of free association—the production by the patients, aloud and without suppression or self-censorship of any kind, of the thoughts and feelings about whatever was uppermost in their minds. From this beginning Freud gradually developed what became known as psychoanalysis. Other features of the new procedure included…

…consciousness is that of “free association.” (See association test.) In free association, according to Freud, the patient