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Definition of free association in English: free associationnoun mass noun1Psychology
The mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any necessary logical connection. 〔心理〕自由联想（指在无任何必然逻辑关系的情况下一个词或一个图像使人自然地联想到另一词或另一图像的心理过程） Example sentencesExamples - In addition to that, this time I have more of an idea of what to expect in terms of the style in which the book is written, the whole stream of consciousness, free association thing.
- However, the qualities that he valued in film as a medium, especially the free association of images that refer to nothing outside themselves, are clearly recognizable in most of his work as a writer.
- The exercise was a game and might be compared to free association of words.
- Before I started drafting the piece, I sat down and wrote out about two pages of free association, just listing images that fit with two of the themes of the story.
- In stream-of-consciousness novels, events are remembered not in chronological order but as free association brings them to mind.
- 1.1 A psychoanalytic technique for investigation of the unconscious mind, in which a relaxed subject reports all passing thoughts without reservation.
自由联想（研究无意识状态的一种心理分析方法，能使全身处于放松状态的实验对象将在脑中闪过的念头如数说出） Example sentencesExamples - Psychodynamic therapists developed techniques such as free association where patients are encouraged to say whatever comes into their minds, and the therapist interprets the associations.
- Freud searched constantly for the underlying causes of mental disorders, and he developed techniques such as free association and the study of dreams to probe the unconscious.
- This is achieved by the technique of free association, whereby one starts with a dream image and allows one's thoughts to associate to it in complete freedom.
- Freudian free association, in Jung's view, carried the dreamer away from the dream and served only to lead him back, time and again, to his childhood complexes, and this defeated the object of the exercise.
- As anyone who has honestly experimented with free association knows, the technique inevitably and rapidly brings to mind topics about which one is emotionally concerned.
2The forming of a group, political alliance, or other organization without any external restriction. 自由结成组织；自由结盟 the right of free association Example sentencesExamples - So 20th-century British governments argued that they were engineering a gradual transformation from a London-dominated empire to a Commonwealth, a free association of equals.
- A second advantage of industrial democracy was that it demanded more than free association: it called for a measure of self-determination as well.
- Formally, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth in free association with the US.
- So they left some space for private initiative: they did not completely abolish civil society - the free association of individuals for economic, political, or other reasons.
- It was superseded by the British Commonwealth, a free association of mainly self-governing nations.
- For the working class, the fact that there is free association is very important indeed.
- After 1989, the right to free association resulted in the establishment of approximately two hundred ethnic organizations.
- But where an organization's purpose is not economic, the right of free association is greater.
- In a democracy, are people entitled to promote their opinions on the effects of policies, and are they entitled to free association with others?
- Voluntary identity groups derive from enacting the principle of free association and include civic, educational, religious, political, and service groups, among others.
- That is simply part and parcel of the liberal right of free association, one of our most basic civil liberties.
- To push for individualism and free association in a land where kinship was the norm for social, religious, and political affiliation was to go completely against the grain.
- Bismarck, Engels pointed out, would stamp out freedom of the press and free association without which no workers' movement was possible.
- Parliamentary democracy, and things like free speech, a free press and free association, are invaluable to any campaign for a more egalitarian society.
- Instead, it claims the privileges of a free association of individuals, and promotes their interests at government expense.
- Whether this argument is persuasive depends largely on how we evaluate two kind of claims, and in particular how much we defer to two claims made by organizations alleging free association violations.
- The rights of free expression of opinion and free association have been denied to us, and many of our countrymen are compelled to live in exile abroad, and cannot return to their homes.
- After World War II, voting privileges and rights of free association were extended throughout the country.
Derivativesverb [no object]Psychology Follow a mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any necessary logical connection. 〔心理〕自由联想（指在无任何必然逻辑关系的情况下一个词或一个图像使人自然地联想到另一词或另一图像的心理过程） free-associate with the image and see what words come up for you Example sentencesExamples - when we think of the word ‘Amazon’, we can easily free-associate to ‘rainforest’
- He invited his patients in effect to talk to themselves, but aloud, in his presence, to be almost unaware of their words - that is, to free-associate, to speak without censorious vigilance whatever happened to cross their minds.
- I couldn't do that now, because my brain isn't able to free-associate as wildly as it could then.
- After trying hypnosis and other forms of suggestion, Freud discovered that a patient could alleviate his own problems by free-associating, thereby bringing these memories to the fore.
Definition of free association in US English: free associationnounəˌsōSHēˈāSHən 1Psychology
The mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any apparent connection. 〔心理〕自由联想（指在无任何必然逻辑关系的情况下一个词或一个图像使人自然地联想到另一词或另一图像的心理过程） Example sentencesExamples - In addition to that, this time I have more of an idea of what to expect in terms of the style in which the book is written, the whole stream of consciousness, free association thing.
- Before I started drafting the piece, I sat down and wrote out about two pages of free association, just listing images that fit with two of the themes of the story.
- However, the qualities that he valued in film as a medium, especially the free association of images that refer to nothing outside themselves, are clearly recognizable in most of his work as a writer.
- In stream-of-consciousness novels, events are remembered not in chronological order but as free association brings them to mind.
- The exercise was a game and might be compared to free association of words.
- 1.1 A psychoanalytic technique for investigation of the unconscious mind, in which a relaxed subject reports all passing thoughts without reservation.
自由联想（研究无意识状态的一种心理分析方法，能使全身处于放松状态的实验对象将在脑中闪过的念头如数说出） Example sentencesExamples - As anyone who has honestly experimented with free association knows, the technique inevitably and rapidly brings to mind topics about which one is emotionally concerned.
- Freud searched constantly for the underlying causes of mental disorders, and he developed techniques such as free association and the study of dreams to probe the unconscious.
- Psychodynamic therapists developed techniques such as free association where patients are encouraged to say whatever comes into their minds, and the therapist interprets the associations.
- Freudian free association, in Jung's view, carried the dreamer away from the dream and served only to lead him back, time and again, to his childhood complexes, and this defeated the object of the exercise.
- This is achieved by the technique of free association, whereby one starts with a dream image and allows one's thoughts to associate to it in complete freedom.
2The forming of a group, political alliance, or other organization without any constraint or external restriction. 自由结成组织；自由结盟 it would violate their First Amendment rights of free association and free expression Example sentencesExamples - After 1989, the right to free association resulted in the establishment of approximately two hundred ethnic organizations.
- So 20th-century British governments argued that they were engineering a gradual transformation from a London-dominated empire to a Commonwealth, a free association of equals.
- Instead, it claims the privileges of a free association of individuals, and promotes their interests at government expense.
- The rights of free expression of opinion and free association have been denied to us, and many of our countrymen are compelled to live in exile abroad, and cannot return to their homes.
- Parliamentary democracy, and things like free speech, a free press and free association, are invaluable to any campaign for a more egalitarian society.
- But where an organization's purpose is not economic, the right of free association is greater.
- Whether this argument is persuasive depends largely on how we evaluate two kind of claims, and in particular how much we defer to two claims made by organizations alleging free association violations.
- Formally, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth in free association with the US.
- So they left some space for private initiative: they did not completely abolish civil society - the free association of individuals for economic, political, or other reasons.
- For the working class, the fact that there is free association is very important indeed.
- A second advantage of industrial democracy was that it demanded more than free association: it called for a measure of self-determination as well.
- To push for individualism and free association in a land where kinship was the norm for social, religious, and political affiliation was to go completely against the grain.
- Bismarck, Engels pointed out, would stamp out freedom of the press and free association without which no workers' movement was possible.
- After World War II, voting privileges and rights of free association were extended throughout the country.
- In a democracy, are people entitled to promote their opinions on the effects of policies, and are they entitled to free association with others?
- Voluntary identity groups derive from enacting the principle of free association and include civic, educational, religious, political, and service groups, among others.
- That is simply part and parcel of the liberal right of free association, one of our most basic civil liberties.
- It was superseded by the British Commonwealth, a free association of mainly self-governing nations.
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