How Do You Define Association?

The word dissociation comes from Latin meaning to sever or to separate. Piers Janae coined it as a psychological construct in the late 1800s. In his native French, the word was desigre-gascion,. William James translated it in a lecture as dissociation and that's what we were left with. An adaptive A lot of it is how I use my daydreaming as a child to stay safe. But in certain contexts, obviously daydreaming keeps me disconnected in some way.