| head | to dance | salt | white | lie |
| green | sick | new | child | to fear |
| water | pride | to pray | sad | stork |
| to sing | ink | money | to marry | false |
| death | angry | foolish | dear | anxiety |
| long | needle | despise | to quarrel | to kiss |
| ship | voyage | finger | old | bride |
| to pay | to sin | expensive | family | pure |
| window | bread | to fall | friend | ridicule |
| cold | rich | unjust | luck | to sleep |
“The Jung association word test is part of the Freud psychanalysis, also,” he whispered to me, “You remember we tried something based on the same idea once before?”
I nodded. I had heard of the thing in connection with blood-pressure tests, but not this way.
Kennedy called out the first word, “Head,” while in his hand he held a stop watch which registered to one-fifth of a second.
Quickly she replied, “Ache,” with an involuntary movement of her hand toward her beautiful forehead.
“Good,” exclaimed Kennedy. “You seem to grasp the idea better than most of my patients.”
I had recorded the answer, he the time, and we found out, I recall afterward, that the time averaged something like two and two-fifths seconds.
I thought her reply to the second word, “green,” was curious. It came quickly, “Envy.”
However, I shall not attempt to give all the replies, but merely some of the most significant. There did not seem to be any hesitation about most of the words, but whenever Kennedy tried to question her about a word that seemed to him interesting she made either evasive or hesitating answers, until it became evident that in the back of her head was some idea which she was repressing and concealing from us, something that she set off with a mental “No Thoroughfare.”
He had finished going through the list, and Kennedy was now studying over the answers and comparing the time records.