Status Updates From The Inkblots: Hermann Rorsc...

i really gaf about these pictures

he was only 37 when he died 🧐🧐🧐 did he have a megamind style skull or ???? also before he's dead for too long in my mind i would like to express that i'm getting a saxy vibe. big time

Olga babe you cannot be serious 😭😭

maybe i'm just a very negative nelly but if he gets into eugenics.. me and hermann will be dusht forevs unforch

now i know all of the secrets of neuroscience and no therapist will ever be able to crack me 🧟

unexpectedly los him

A dense, uncomfortable book. The man’s life is portrayed quite sympathetically and in detail, as is the evolution of the blots themselves, in exhaustive and highly analySwitching back-and-forth between Jungia Freudian, and its hundreds of offshoots gets confusing, and I still have no idea exactly how the ink parts work. Put the new that heat. This book should be startling, but it only isn’t places, such as the fact t

esse último capítulo foi praticamente uma grande fofoca sobre a relação do bleuler, jung e freud 👀 e uma boa introdução de como o rorschach começou a pensar no seu futuro teste. to adorando!!!!!

ja to amando!!

esse livro é literalmente um dos melhores que eu li esse ano, falo sério

bleuler !!

bleuler 💕

Seems like my love and appreciation of psychoanalysis stemed from my early exposure to russian classics - “Freud had joked in a 1912 letter to Jung that “there seems to be a local epidemic of psychoanalysis” in Russia...”

this book is taking forever to read 3

Americans increasingly thought of themselves as having something special inside that could not be accessed with any standard test, and the Rorschach would prove uniquely able to grasp it.

Damion Searls, page 180

Ok obsessed with him

Into it

De flesta känner till det faktum att Hermann Rorschachs liv tyvärr blev allt för kort. På sid 162 rapporterar författaren om detta, med det vanliga freestylandet i dramatiseringen. Vad gör vi nu då, boken, det är ju mer än hälften kvar; "the inkblots were now let loose on the world".

Det är Jungs födelsedag; nu tar jag tag i den här hyllvärmaren.

“I never again want to read just books, the way I did in Schaffhausen. I want to read people.” - Rorschach

Yayyyy! Finally done with this book. 😬😬😬

Must.Finish.This.Book.This.Month

Once again disturbing, and at least once, funny. Disturbing due to the use of Rorschach testing on the Nazis standing trial at Nuremberg. Funny due of the other "untheorized" tests that it sprouted (including a "Cypress Knees Projective Test" for blind people!), parlor games and ads.

Fascinating and disturbing, in a way. After HR's death, the test gets out of hand. American psychologists/psychiatrists are interested in it, but then again so are anthropologists. Extremely freaky and shady, because the test is still not based on any coherent theory, but it somehow "works". Gets rebranded as a "projective test", and then extensively used in various settings.

T.T This second part of the book was (shall I say) infinitely better than the first. HR's interest for sects, his turbulent relationship with Olga, his (at times desperate) attempts to publish the test. His modesty, his hesitations, his efforts to ground the test scientifically, to give it a theory, his premature and stupid death, everything is ... heartbreaking :((( watch?v=pECQK8ImFeQ

So far, overly optimistic about the results of psychoanalysis and very positive about Rorschach. But even though HR is so interesting (especially due to his egalitarian views in respect to women and his love for Russian culture), he seems more like a marginal note to the huge psycho-playas of those times: Freud, Jung, and Bleuler. Let us see how this progresses. I had no idea that empathy was such a new word :O

Very interesting! So many fascinating tidbits about the history of psychology, philosophy, and science!

Off to a good start.

“People still widely think of [the Rorschach] as a way to generate ‘projections’. A test of seeing does far more, though. It reveals a person’s grasp on reality, cognitive functioning, susceptibility to emotions. It shows how she approaches a task and gives her a chance to connect with an empathetic therapist and heal. Like any act of seeing, taking the Rorschach is a combination of shaping, thinking, and feeling.”