Today, the Google Doodle honors Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst who came up with the Rorschach tests, on his 129th birthday. Though he never saw his 40th birthday, he might have gotten a kick out of the doodle, which asks users to look at inkblot images and share what they see. The sharing, of course, is complete with links to Facebook, Google + and Twitter.
(I must be crazy, as I see an evil stepmother with wings or a dance scene from “The Rite of Spring.” For the record, I don’t even have a stepmother.)
- Posting the most commonly given answers to the images caused a Wikipedia scandal a few years ago.
- Like graphic novels or comics? Rorschach from Watchmen, with his inkblot-like mask is an homage to the psychiatrist.
- Rorchach’s book Psychodiagnostics was published only a year before his death and took some time to catch on, so he never saw the famed and lampooned Rorschach inkblots as part of the cultural zeitgeist.
- Rorschach died due to complications related to a ruptured appendix.
- You can test yourself with the original Rorschach test images.
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Below is a classic employment of the inkblot test. Okay, really it’s a funny video of Barney Fife employing the inkblot test. “The therap-ee don’t talk back to the therapist.” Happy Friday!
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