Free Association

Free association may refer to:

  • Free association (psychology), a clinical technique of psychoanalysis devised by Sigmund Freud
  • Free Association, a musical group formed by David Holmes for the Code 46 soundtrack
  • Associated state, a type of political relationship that one country may have with another country
  • Freedom of association, a human right
  • Free association (communism and anarchism), the society that is the goal of anarchists and communists
  • Free Association (newspaper), a publication of the Japanese Anarchist Federation

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or association:

    “I know you not, this room never,
    the swollen dress I wear,
    nor the anonymous spoons that free me,
    nor this calendar nor the pulse we pare and cover.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)