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:
“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It’s the music a man’s spirit sings to his heart, when the earth’s far away and there isn’t any more fear. It’s the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious ... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing ... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think—and it is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist’s work ever produced.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)