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An essential feature of the [[technique]] of [[psychoanalysis]], gradually developed by [[Freud]] between 1892 and 1898.
 
Curiously enough, no one paper by [[Freud]] is devoted in its entirely to describing the technique; its origins are described in ''On the [[History]] of the [[Psychoanalytic]] Movement'' (1914), and ''Two Encyclopedia Articles'' (1922) describe the technique itself.
 
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The rule of [[free association]] states that a [[patient in [[analysis]] (or [[analysand]]) must verbally express whatever comes into his or her [[mind]] during the [[session]], telling all and omitting [[nothing]].
 
A corresponding rule requires the [[analyst]] to listen to all the [[verbal]] [[associations]] made by the [[patient]], giving no [[particular]] importance to anything but paying attention to everything.
 
The analyst must listen with "evenly suspended or poised attention."<ref>Freud. 1912b.</ref>
 
The function of both rules is to prevent the consicous mind from censoring or blocking hte [[process]] of [[interpretation]].
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