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:

    “Thou madest loose grace unkind;
    Gavest bridle to their words, art to their pace.
    O Honour, it is thou
    That makest that stealth, which Love doth free allow.”
    —Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)

    “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)