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The captivating, untold storyline of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test. In 1917, working exclusively in a remote control Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an test to probe the human being mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots. For years he previously grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the cosmetic movements of the day, from futurism to dadaism. A aesthetic designer himself, Rorschach had come to believe who were is less a subject of whatever we say, as Freud thought, than what we see. After Rorschach's early on fatality, his test quickly made its way to America, where it took over a life of its own. Co-opted by the armed forces after Pearl Harbor, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an advertising staple, a cliché in Hollywood and journalism, and an enthusiasm to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay Z. The test was also directed at millions of defendants, job job seekers, parents in custody battles, and folks experiencing mental illness or simply trying to comprehend themselves better. Which is still used today. With this first-ever biography of Rorschach, Damion Searls pulls on unpublished characters and diaries and a cache of previously undiscovered interviews with Rorschach's family, friends, and colleagues to inform the unlikely storyline of the test's creation, its controversial reinvention, and its remarkable endurance - and what it all reveals about the power of understanding. Elegant and original, The Inkblots shines a light on the 20th century's most visionary synthesis of skill and science.
