Linking mind, body and language
Free Association Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6129783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leena Klockars (a Ulvilantie 16 G, 00350 , Helsinki , Finland E-mail, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-112 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01062301.2004.10592948 |
| OpenAlex | W2046622144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
Psychoanalysis differs from other theories because of the great significance it attributes to a man's unconscious. Psychoanalysis differs fundamentally from other therapeutic methods in its use of free association and the significance and power it gives to this method when investigating unconscious phenomena. The present article begins with a brief review of the history of free association and its use as a method. After that, I discuss the relationship between free association and memory, neuropsychoanalysis and semiotics. Free association is linked with implicit memory and seen as a way of remembering; unconscious experiences are given a verbal form with the help of free association. The psychoanalytical setting and transference together constitute a psychic space, in which it becomes possible for the patient to get into touch with his or her bodily, psychic and verbal experiences and material simultaneously. The author sees free association specifically as a form of mental processing which is typical to psychoanalysis; it is a core process where the experiences of mind, body and language and their expressions link together. Free association is simultaneously the result of a memory activity and creative activity and, above all, a combination or synthesis of these two processes
Association (psychology) · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Free association (psychology) · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Semiotics · Unconscious mind · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Representations and Identity
The interpretation of dreams.
The evolution of the psychosemiosis in the psychic development of the child
The meaning of the symbolic function in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
The Process of Remembering
Speech events, language development, and the clinical situation
The repressed and implicit knowledge
A Semiotic Model of Mind
Some Considerations on Free Association
Helping Patients by Analyzing Self-Criticism
Some Ambiguities in the Method of Free Association and Their Implications for Technique
Metaphors of a Bodily Mind
Transference, metaphor and the poetics of psychoanalysis
The contribution of mother-infant mutual influence to the origins of self- and object representations
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |