ABSTRACT

The free association studies were concerned primarily with the cognitive features of verbal, visual and enactive representations. This chapter involves a preliminary and in vivo exploration of the affective aspects. It looks at day-dreams, fantasies and other idle thoughts, and at how thought and feeling are interrelated in them. Day-dreams and kindred phenomena are here used more as a method through which the relationships between thought and feeling can be explored than as the focus of study in their own right.