Free association is a psychological technique in which words or images are used to suggest other words or images in anonlogical way.
The volume consists of short poems interspersed by eight "Meditations," longish poemsof free association.
free association in British English
noun
1. psychoanalysis
a method of exploring a person's unconscious by eliciting words and thoughts that are associated with key words provided by a psychoanalyst
2.
a spontaneous mental process whereby ideas, words, or images suggest other ideas, etc, in a nonlogical chain reaction
free association in American English
1. Psychoanalysis
the technique of having the patient talk spontaneously, expressing without inhibition whatever ideas, memories, etc. come to mind: used to discover repressed material in the unconscious
2.
any process of mental association in which spontaneous or nonlogical linking takes place
Examples of 'free association' in a sentence
free association
We have no government but the single principle of free association.