Free association.
Not just a potential name for some terrible new media advertisment firm, this 'free association' made Bob Dylan and Ol' Dirty Bastard seem brilliant to your true-typely. Be it in the morphing symbol animations of Len Lye or the character comedy of the Fast Show's Colin Hunt [to whom I was once compared, oops], this method of ideas linking and leading to others in a sequence sometimes really wins. Visual/aural thesaurus, bingo. Noticing similarities then sitting things next to each other. Accessing your memory and stirring around at speed. I want to hear those mistakes and discoveries that the cool people omit from their more heavily-controlled official releases, even if they're shit. The things that break even the most personal of conventions. The embarrassing and shocking things. But also the imaginative and beautiful and surprising things. Beck used to do it too didn't he? I find it exciting to be able to rely upon the internet for bringing weight to my input memories from the 80's, the vague research that could add so much to my essay. Anyway, the process is simple. Harry Hill does it too.
Here is the Wikipedia tale:
Free association (Psychodynamic theory) is a technique used in psychology, devised by Sigmund Freud.
Freud had abandoned hypnosis as a clinical technique, both because of its fallibility and because he found that patients could recover and comprehend crucial memories while conscious. Using the technique of free association, Freud asked patients to relate anything which came into their mind, regardless of how apparently unimportant or potentially embarrassing the memory threatened to be. This technique assumed that all memories are arranged in a single associative network, and that sooner or later the subject would stumble across the crucial memory.
Freud found that despite a subject's every effort to remember, a certain resistance kept them from the most painful and important memories. He eventually came to the view that certain items were completely repressed, and off-limits to the conscious realm of the mind.
Freud's eventual practice of psychoanalysis focused not so much on the recall of these memories as on the internal mental conflicts which kept them buried deep within the mind, though the technique of free association still plays a role today in the study of the mind.
This character, flat and built of round shapes, shows variable proportion and interchangeable representation opportunties, the circles could become many things...when I have my graphics tablet [when in Kent] I will be exploring the world of rounded lines, so trippy,
Here is the Wikipedia tale:
Free association (Psychodynamic theory) is a technique used in psychology, devised by Sigmund Freud.
Freud had abandoned hypnosis as a clinical technique, both because of its fallibility and because he found that patients could recover and comprehend crucial memories while conscious. Using the technique of free association, Freud asked patients to relate anything which came into their mind, regardless of how apparently unimportant or potentially embarrassing the memory threatened to be. This technique assumed that all memories are arranged in a single associative network, and that sooner or later the subject would stumble across the crucial memory.
Freud found that despite a subject's every effort to remember, a certain resistance kept them from the most painful and important memories. He eventually came to the view that certain items were completely repressed, and off-limits to the conscious realm of the mind.
Freud's eventual practice of psychoanalysis focused not so much on the recall of these memories as on the internal mental conflicts which kept them buried deep within the mind, though the technique of free association still plays a role today in the study of the mind.
This character, flat and built of round shapes, shows variable proportion and interchangeable representation opportunties, the circles could become many things...when I have my graphics tablet [when in Kent] I will be exploring the world of rounded lines, so trippy,
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