free association
noun
mass noun
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- Psychology the mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any necessary logical connection【心理】自由联想（指在无任何必然逻辑关系的情况下一个词或一个图像使人自然地联想到另一词或另一图像的心理过程）。
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- a psychoanalytic technique for investigation of the unconscious mind, in which a relaxed subject reports all passing thoughts without reservation自由联想（研究无意识状态的一种心理分析方法, 能使全身处于放松状态的实验对象将在脑中闪过的念头如数说出）。
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- the forming of a group, political alliance, or other organization without any constraint or external restriction自由结成组织; 自由结盟。
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