free association
noun 🔊/ˌfriː əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn/, 🔊/ˌfriː əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn/ 🔊/ˌfriː əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn/, 🔊/ˌfriː əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn/ [uncountable]- the mental process by which one word or image may suggest another without any obvious connection
- Many of the images seem to have been arrived at by means of free association. 许多图像似乎是通过自由联想获得的。
- a method of treating a patient by asking them to use the mental process of free association
- Freud insisted on free association as the mainspring of analysis.弗洛伊德坚持自由结社是分析的主要动力。