**6. Conclusion**

In this chapter, I have covered some new directions of exploration of two major areas in psychoanalysis: free association and its link to science and primal repression, an area recognized by Freud but little referred to in recent writings. Gentile [63] has previously pointed to the relationship between free association and democracy. She posits that:

*Free Association, Synchrony, and Neural Networks as Evolutionary Exponents in Psychoanalysis DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107964*

*The ironic definitional "rule" of free association was that there was no rule to follow and no one's rule. If free association was to prevail, the patient had to bypass conventional rules of conventional censorship, ceding herself to the impetus yet also imperial authority to desirous voice, her unconscious desire (p. 21).*

Likewise, exploring some of the aspects of the primal repressed systematically may provide access to a variety of sources of intergenerational transmission of traits and information, an area that has been of particular interest in the study of traumatic stress. It is my contention that the only way of promoting an open field of psychoanalysis is by partnering with the investigative and research methodology of other fields and promoting "joint ventures" that would give further legitimacy to a new psychoanalysis. This shall open our field to new generations of psychoanalytic researchers and clinicians alike.
