“自由联想”和“基本规则”是精神分析疗法的基石,适用于患者和分析师在此过程中应经历的事情。这篇文章追溯了西格蒙德·弗洛伊德对自由联合重要性的革命性认识,这始于他对路德维希·伯恩和弗里德里希·席勒的作品的敬意。作者援引了艺术家和科学家提出的其他类似于自由协会的建议,包括约翰·济慈,查尔斯·狄更斯,罗伯特·弗罗斯特,托马斯·S·库恩,亚瑟·科斯特勒,阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦.在强调自由联合与有效治疗和发现有关的重要性和解放潜力的同时,作者认为,有一个“道德压力”,病人和分析师都允许自由的联想思想,特别是质疑事物应该是什么样的假设。
\"Free association\" and the \"fundamental rule\" are bedrock for psychoanalytic therapy and apply to what both patient and analyst should experience in the process. The article traces Sigmund Freud\'s revolutionary recognition of the importance of free association that began with his tribute to the works of Ludwig Börne and Friedrich Schiller. The author invokes other proposals akin to free association made by artists and scientists, including John Keats, Charles Dickens, Robert Frost, Thomas S. Kuhn, Arthur Koestler, and Albert Einstein. While emphasizing the importance and the liberatory potential of free association as it relates to effective treatment and discovery, the author contends that there is a \"moral press\" for both the patient and the analyst to permit free associative thoughts, particularly to question assumptions about how things are supposed to be.