Google is having a whale of a week with doodles currently. After coming up with commemorative doodles to celebrate Shakuntala Devi and CV Raman’s birth anniversaries, Google has released an interactive doodle for acclaimed psychiatrist Rorschach’s birthday.Freudian Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach’s 129th birth anniversary understandably sees some interesting doodling on Google’s part. Rorschach was probably best known for his inkblot test more commonly known as Rorschach’s test. The doodle has a black-and-white setting with the psychoanalyst sitting with a pen and paper and an interactive blot test appearing before you, changing every now and then.Of course, there are no right or wrong answers for the ink blot tests. You could interpret the blobs on the paper whichever way you wish. Google then encourages you to share what you’ve seen in the blots on Google+, Facebook and Twitter, also providing a link to do so.
Is it a cat? Is it a butterfly?
Rorschach was born in 1884 in Switzerland and was most well-known to his school friends as Klecks, or “inkblot” since he so loved to create pictures from inkblots, also known as klecksography. Rorschach could not make up his mind between a career of art or science and even wrote to the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel, asking him to help make his mind up. Under Haeckel’s advice, Rorschach enrolled in a medical school at the University or Rorschach. He also studied under eminent psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who also taught another renowned psychiatrist, Carl Jung. The buzz in the intellectual circles back then over psychoanalysis reminded Rorschach of his inkblots and he used them to gauge responses. Rorschach also wrote a book called Psychodiagnostik before he passed away in 1922 at the young age of 37. After some really interesting illustration-based doodles, the interactive Rorschach doodle should be a great way to spend a Friday afternoon with pop-psychology today.
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