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 mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings. ... they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)

    “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)