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:

    “Openmindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.”
    —Richard Rorty (b. 1931)

    “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)