Free Association As Paradoxical Concept
During his interview with Françoise Wolff, when asked, “Doesn’t psychoanalysis contain a repression of freedom?” Lacan responded with a chuckle, saying, “Those words make me laugh. I never talk about freedom.”[1] This tongue-in-cheek remark raises the question of the equivocal nature of this word “free” in Freud’s fundamental rule of “free association.” For already by …