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Hermann Rorschach

Hermann Rorschach was born in Zurich to an ancient Swiss family from the Canton Thurgau. He went to school in the small town of Schaffhausen, in an atmosphere of intellectual and cultural affluence. His father, who died in 1903, was a failed artist who provided a living for his family by working as a drawing teacher in a boys' preparatory school.

Hermann's nickname as a secondary school student was Klex, meaning "inkblot". There has been much speculation as to the extraordinary coincidence of his nickname and the test for which he is now famous. Klecksography was a game which was commonly played by Swiss children and consisted of spotting an ink blot on paper and folding it so that the forms of a butterfly or a bird would be obtained.

Hermann Rorschach has been described as a studious and orderly pupil who completed his basic studies with top marks in all disciplines. He took a great interest in drawing, being an artist of some merit. Towards the end of his schooling in Schaffhausen he wrote to Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) - the famous advocate of Darwin's ev

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Rorschach, Hermann

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SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist, was born in 1884 and died in 1922. These were the exciting years when psychoanalysis came of age and gave impetus to fresh inquiry in all social and cultural areas. In the psychology of the individual, psychoanalysis revealed hitherto unfathomed aspects of the emotions. Scientific psychology was thus faced with a new challenge, the measurement of unconscious emotions. Rorschach’s famous test met this newly felt need.

Rorschach, the first of three children, was born in Zurich. When he was two years old the family moved to Schaffhausen, a commercially busy and culturally stimulating city; his father became a drawing teacher there. His mother died when he was 12 and his father when he was 18. In his final year in the Kantonschule, undecided whether to choose a career in science or art, he wrote to the biologist Ernst Haeckel (O. Rorschach 1944; Morgen-thaler 1921), who advised him to go into medicine. He began his studies in Zurich and went successively to Berlin, to Bonn, t

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