
What is free association in art?
The method of free association has no linear or preplanned agenda, but works by intuitive leaps and linkages which may lead to new personal insights and meanings: 'the logic of association is a form of unconscious thinking' (Christopher Bollas, The Evocative Object World (2008) p. 21). When used in this spirit, free association is a technique in which neither therapist nor patient knows in advance exactly where the conversation (or artistic creative process) will lead, but it