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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.

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 function of both rules is to prevent the consicous mind from censoring or blocking hte [[process ]] of [[interpretation]].