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:
“... that phrase of mischievous sophistry, “all men are born free and equal.” This false and futile axiom, which has done, is doing, and will do so much harm to this fine country ...”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)
“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)