Psychoanalyst's famous inkblot test is what you can see on the Google homepage on November 8, 2013.
Google seems to be on a doodle roll this week, after honouring Nobel laureate physicist CV Raman on Thursday and 'Human Computer' Shakuntala Devi on Monday, Friday sees the birthday of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach being celebrated.
Google who loves to turn their homepage into a creative and interactive space have a black and white doodle on their homepage.
A cartoon version of renowned psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach can be seen sitting with a notepad and pen in his hands as hands faced towards the viewer is seen holding a piece of paper that has a simple inkblot held in front of the screen.
Asked share what you see the inkblot changes into random shapes with users encouraged to share their interpretation of the inkblot on Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter.
The mise-en-scene in the doodle spells the word Google as usual and reminds one of a day at the psychiatrist or psychologist.
Born on November 8, 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland, known as 'Klecks' thanks to his love for klecksography – the art of turning inkblots into recognisable images, Hermann Rorschach grew up to use his passion to become a great psychoanalyst.
Taught by psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler who had taught Carl Jung, Rorschach was greatly interested in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalyst movement.
While getting into this way of studying the human mind, Rorschach put his klecksography love to use reminded of his classmates who enjoyed interpreting their inkblot paintings.
Rorschach began to wonder why some people have completely different responses to the same inkblots paintings. Spurred by this need to know, the psychoanalyst started showing inkblot artworks to children to analyse their varying responses which were creative and wild.
Putting in many years of research backed by multiple tests while working as an assistant director at the regional psychiatric hospital in Herisau, Rorschach wrote Psychodiagnostik – a book describing how inkblot tests can be effectively used in psychoanalysis.
Less than a year after he wrote his seminal work, Rorschach died at 37 of peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix.
Despite his death at an early age, Hermann Rorschach's work and legacy live on with inkblot tests being widely used in psychological studies and analysis all over the world.
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