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:

    “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

    “The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)