Teheuti
Freud developed a psychoanalytic technique that he called "free association." It involves relating whatever comes into a person's mind during the analytic session, and especially when asked to respond to a list of words or a set of images. How is this different than the intuitions of an untrained "intuitive" reader - especially when this "newbie" is told that the way to read is to simply "trust the very first thing that comes into your mind"? BTW, I've heard this recommendation given countless times in Tarot and Lenormand groups.
I think it potentially can say more about the person who is doing the "intuiting" than it does about the client. This is especially likely if you don't have a feedback system or a tradition or system with which to counter-check your associations.
Freud's use of free association was intended to help discover notions that a patient had developed, initially, at an unconscious level. It involved projecting internal feelings or motives and ascribing them to other objects or people. These often included assumptions, prejudices, emotions and prohibited impulses that people hid from themselves, and therefore were, by definition, unaware that they were projecting. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) came directly out of Jung's use of free association with pictures with his patients (two of whom created the TAT).
Is something more required for real intuition to take place into someone else's situation (past, present or future) than "free association"?
I think it potentially can say more about the person who is doing the "intuiting" than it does about the client. This is especially likely if you don't have a feedback system or a tradition or system with which to counter-check your associations.
Freud's use of free association was intended to help discover notions that a patient had developed, initially, at an unconscious level. It involved projecting internal feelings or motives and ascribing them to other objects or people. These often included assumptions, prejudices, emotions and prohibited impulses that people hid from themselves, and therefore were, by definition, unaware that they were projecting. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) came directly out of Jung's use of free association with pictures with his patients (two of whom created the TAT).
Is something more required for real intuition to take place into someone else's situation (past, present or future) than "free association"?