This activity is suitable for the ages of 7+ and requires some adult supervision. Want to have a go at klecksography? Follow the instructions attached to have a go at making your own ink blots and using them to craft a unique story. In this way, ink blots were used as a type of creative writing prompt. This then became a popular party game “Gobolinks” involved one person in a group producing an ink blot, everyone in the group writing a verse to accompany the ink blot and voting on their favourite. The method for klecksography involved dripping some ink on to a piece of paper and folding it in half, producing odd shapes and patterns. Rorschach was such a big fan that his childhood nickname was “Klecks,” with klecksography being the inspiration for his test. “Klecksography,” or the art of making images from ink blots, was a very popular past time in the late Victorian period. However, ink blots had been used as a tool for studying the subconscious since the late 1800’s. The Ink Blot test was popularised by Hermann Rorschach in 1921 when he published “Psychodiagnostik” following a study of 300 mental patients and 100 control subjects, and was originally created as a tool for diagnosing schizophrenia. E nglish artist Olivia Kemp never lays out her drawings with pencil, each heady artwork drawn freehand, errors and all, with pen and ink. The use of the Rorschach Test as a diagnostic tool is heavily disputed today, and generally if used at all it is as a conversation starter in therapeutic sessions. The test is essentially a visual variation on Freud's verbal technique.Many will be familiar with Rorschach’s “Ink Blot Test.” It is a personality test that has permeated our media for decades the idea following that by looking at a random blot image and explaining what our brains make of it, we can reveal some of our subconscious and find out more about who we “truly” are. He then created his Rorschach test to see if people's reactions to inkblots could be used as a tool to uncover unconscious desires. In studying Freud's work on dream symbolism, Rorschach was reminded of his youthful inkblot hobby. As a medical student, Rorschach studied under psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who had taught Carl Jung. Rorschach Īs a child in Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach enjoyed klecksography so much that his friends nicknamed him "Klecks", meaning "inkblot". Use in psychology Binet and Henri Īs early as 1895, Alfred Binet and his associate Victor Henri first suggested that inkblots might be used in psychological research, arguing that the interpretation of inkblots could be used to study variations in ‘involuntary imagination’. The book explained how to make inkblot monsters ("gobolinks") and use them as prompts for writing imaginative verse. In 1896, a similar game was described in the United States by Ruth McEnery Stuart and Albert Bigelow Paine in a book titled Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old. Kerner began a collection of klecksographs and poetry in 1857 titled Klecksographien (and reproduced in several later editions). He elaborated these shapes into intricate cartoons and used them to illustrate his poems. Instead of throwing them away, he found that intriguing shapes appeared if he unfolded the papers. Justinus Kerner invented this technique when he started accidentally dropping blots of ink onto paper due to failing eyesight. A page of poetry and art from Justinus Kerner's Klecksographien (1890)
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