Free association is “the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis which lays it down that whatever comes into one's head must be reported without criticising it”. Resistance ... Freud infers from this process that the “transference-idea” has become conscious ahead of other free associations because it “satisfies the resistance”. read more
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. He became interested in hypnotism and how it could be used to help the mentally ill. read more