free association

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He liked Surrealism, but mostly for its belief in the primacy of free association and dreams; when he began a picture, he had no idea where it might take him.
他的风格接近超现实主义，但这只是因为他信仰自由联想和想象是创作的首要因素；当他开始创作时，他并不知道自己最后会画出一幅什么样的画。
He found he could get patients to talk just by putting them in a relaxing position (the couch) and encouraging them to say whatever came into their heads (free association).
他发现如果把患者放置在一个放松和舒服的位置（例如放在沙发上），然后鼓励他们自由思索并说出地进入他们头脑里的任何东西（自由联想）。
Sigmund Freud used free association.
西格蒙德•弗洛伊德用过自由联盟。

Sigmund Freud used free association.
The American Lung Association says half of the fifty states have passed smoke-free laws.
At a rally in Jakarta, the National Workers Union voices opposition to the free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Homosexual activists touting tolerance and free association will be the first to file suit.
FORBES: Marriage Is A Private Matter That's None Of The Federal Government's Business

a method of trying to see how the human mind works, in which a person says the first word that they think of after hearing a word that is spoken to them

Free association is a psychological technique in which words or images are used to suggest other words or images in a nonlogical way.

自由联想
In Ulysses, Joyce profoundly reveals the delicate inner world of characters by employing techniques of stream of consciousness, such as internal monologue, free association, fantasy, etc.
通过运用内心独白、自由联想、梦幻等意识流手法,乔伊斯深刻地揭示了书中人物微妙的内心世界。
艺术学
内隐联想测验