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 THE ASSOCIATION METHOD

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 Ladies and Gentlemen: When I was honored with the invitation from Clark University to lecture before this esteemed assemblage, a wish was at the same time expressed that I should speak about my methods of work, and especially about the psychology of childhood. I hope to accomplish this task in the following manner:

In my first lecture I shall try to present to you the view points of my association methods; in my second lecture I shall discuss the significance of the familiar constellations; while in my third lecture I shall enter more fully into the psychology of the child.

I might easily confine myself exclusively to my theoretical views, but I believe that it will be better to illustrate my lectures with as many practical examples as possible. We shall therefore occupy ourselves first with the method of association, a method which has been of valuable assistance to me both practically and theoretically. The association method in vogue in psychology, as well as its history, is of course, so familiar to you that there is no need to speak of it. For practical purposes I make use of the following formulary:

1.head 2.green 3.water 4.to sing 5.dead 6.long 7.ship 8.to pay 9.window 10.friendly 11.to cook 12.to ask 13.cold 14.stem 15.to dance 16.village 17.lake 18.sick 19.pride 20.to cook 21.ink 22.angry 23.needle 24.to swim 25.voyage 26.blue 27.lamp 28.to sin 29.bread 30.rich 31.tree 32.to prick 33.pity 34.yellow 35.mountain 36.to die 37.salt 38.new 39.custom 40.to pray 41.money 42.foolish 43.pamphlet 44.despise 45.finger 46.expensive 47.bird 48.to fall 49.book 50.unjust 51.frog 52.to part 53.hunger 54.white 