ABSTRACT
A certain special experience in the experimenter and also a fair knowledge of certain aspects of psychopathology are necessary with subjects who are not used to psychological experiments. These are the principles of Sigmund Freud's ingenious psychoanalysis. This chapter meant not only as a warning but also as an encouragement to practise the association method, which is one of the most fruitful in all psychology. Wilhelm Wundt, stimulated by Galton", Psychometric Experiments" introduced into German psychology a simple experiment which proposes to call the "association experiment". In accordance with the intensity of human beings emotions people's thinking and behaviour are constellated by their complexes, and so are their associations. Freud is certainly a man of genius, but his psychoanalysis is, in its principles at least, not an inimitable art, but a transferable and teachable method, the practice of which is greatly helped by the association experiment.
