AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sigmund Freud was in the process of developing free association from 1892 to 1898. He planned on using it as a new method for exploring the unconscious. It would replace hypnosis in this respect. Freud claimed free association gave people in therapy complete freedom to examine their thoughts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud viewed the unconscious as a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, anxiety-producing wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of repression.

Detailed explanation-3: -Free association is the practice of allowing the patient to discuss thoughts, dreams, memories, or words, regardless of coherency. The patient is allowed to talk without pause in a stream of words. Freud believed this non-linear way of thinking would lead to the unconscious mind.