Klecksography
Sign in to save200px|thumbnail|right|A klecksograph by Justinus Kerner, published 1879 Klecksography is the art of making images from inkblots (German Tinten-Klecks). The work was pioneered by Justinus Kerner, who included klecksographs in his books of poetry. Since the 1890s, psychologists have used it as a tool for studying the subconscious, most famously Hermann Rorschach in his Rorschach inkblot test.
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- projective test
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- inception
- 1857-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Justinus Kerner
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- Method
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- Use in psychology
- Binet and Henri
- Rorschach
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- References
200px|thumbnail|right|A klecksograph by Justinus Kerner, published 1879 Klecksography is the art of making images from inkblots (German Tinten-Klecks). The work was pioneered by Justinus Kerner, who included klecksographs in his books of poetry. Since the 1890s, psychologists have used it as a tool for studying the subconscious, most famously Hermann Rorschach in his Rorschach inkblot test.
==Method== Spots of ink are dropped onto a piece of paper and the paper is folded in half, so that the ink will smudge and form a mirror reflection in the two halves. The piece of paper is then unfolded so that the ink can dry, after which someone can guess the resemblance of the print to other objects. The inkblots tend to resemble images because of apophenia, the human tendency to see patterns in nature.
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