word association

1. N an early method of psychoanalysis in which the patient thinks of the first word that comes into consciousness on hearing a given word. In this way it was claimed that aspects of the unconscious could be revealed before defence mechanisms intervene (心理分析學(xué))詞語(yǔ)聯(lián)想法; 病人聽(tīng)到一個(gè)詞後意識(shí)到的第一個(gè)詞，以此揭示其潛意識(shí)