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:
“Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)