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| − | Free Association is an essential aspect of psychoanalysis.
| + | An essential feature of the [[technique]] of [[psychoanalysis]], gradually developed by [[Freud]] between 1892 and 1898. |
| − | [[Free association]] is an important aspect of the [[psychoanalytic]] technique. | |
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| − | [[Free association]] is a method used in [[psychoanalytic treatment]] in which the [[analysand]] (or [[patient]]) expresses what comes to mind (in a spontaneous, unconstrained and undirected association of thoughts and feelings). | + | Curiously enough, no one paper by [[Freud]] is devoted in its entirely to describing the technique; its origins are described in ''On the [[History]] of the [[Psychoanalytic]] Movement'' (1914), and ''Two Encyclopedia Articles'' (1922) describe the technique itself. |
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| − | This method, devised by [[Sigmund Freud]], is intended to reduce the level of [[censorship]] in the [[conscious]] mind of the [[analysand]].
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| − | The [[analyst]] listens (with 'evenly suspended or poised attention') to all associations made by the [[analysand]] (giving no particular importance to anything but paying attention to everything) in an effort to extract the "pure metal of valuable unconscious thoughts" from the "raw material of the patient's association."<ref>1905e. p. 112</ref> | + | The rule of [[free association]] states that a [[patient in [[analysis]] (or [[analysand]]) must verbally express whatever comes into his or her [[mind]] during the [[session]], telling all and omitting [[nothing]]. |
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| − | [[Free association]] is a method by which the [[analyst]] can approach (or even 'uncover') the [[repression|repressed]] and [[unconscious]] thoughts, ideas and representations [[repression|repressed]] of the [[analysand]] (from the [[unconscious]] mind of the [[analysand]]).
| + | A corresponding rule requires the [[analyst]] to listen to all the [[verbal]] [[associations]] made by the [[patient]], giving no [[particular]] importance to anything but paying attention to everything. |
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| − | This technique is supposed to help bring forth repressed thoughts and feelings that the person can then work through to gain a better sense of self.
| + | The analyst must listen with "evenly suspended or poised attention."<ref>Freud. 1912b.</ref> |
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| − | <blockquote>The success of the psycho-analysis depends on his noticing and reporting whatever comes into his head and not being misled, for instance, into suppressing an idea because it stikes him as unimportant or irrelevant or because it seems to him meaningless.<ref>The Method of Interpreting Dreams. 1900a. p. 101</ref></blockquote>
| + | The function of both rules is to prevent the consicous mind from censoring or blocking hte [[process]] of [[interpretation]]. |
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| − | [[Freud]] describes the method in detail:
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| − | <blockquote>You will notice that as you relate things various thoughts will occur to you which you would like to put aside on the ground of certain criticisms and objections. You will be tempted to say to yourself that this or that is irrelevant here, or is quite up important, or nonsensical, so that there is no need to say it. You must never give in to these criticisms, but must say it in spite of them—indeed, you must say it precisely because you feel an aversion to doing so. Later on you will find out and learn to understand the reason for this injunction, which is really the only one you have to follow. So say whatever goes through your mind. Act as though, for instance, you were a traveler sitting next to the window of a railway carriage and describing to someone inside the carriage the changing views which you see outside. Finally, never forget that you have promised to be absolutely honest, and never leave anything out because, for some reason or other, it is unpleasant to tell it."<ref>"On Beginning the Treatment" (1913c) (p. 135).</ref></blockquote>
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | * [[Active imagination (analytical psychology)]]
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| − | * [[Complex]]
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| − | * [[Evenly-suspended attention]]
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| − | * [[Framework of the psychoanalytic cure]]
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| − | * [[Hermeneutics]]
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| − | * [[Technique with adults, psychoanalytic]]
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| − | * [[Sudden involuntary idea]]
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| − | * [[Word association (analytic psychology)]]
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| − | ==References==
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| − | # Freud, Sigmund. (1906c). Psycho-analysis and the establishment of facts in legal proceedings. SE, 9: 103-114.
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An essential feature of the technique of psychoanalysis, gradually developed by Freud between 1892 and 1898.
Curiously enough, no one paper by Freud is devoted in its entirely to describing the technique; its origins are described in On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (1914), and Two Encyclopedia Articles (1922) describe the technique itself.
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The rule of free association states that a [[patient in analysis (or analysand) must verbally express whatever comes into his or her mind during the session, telling all and omitting nothing.
A corresponding rule requires the analyst to listen to all the verbal associations made by the patient, giving no particular importance to anything but paying attention to everything.
The analyst must listen with "evenly suspended or poised attention."[1]
The function of both rules is to prevent the consicous mind from censoring or blocking hte process of interpretation.
