Ever heard of ‘klecksography’ ?!?!?!
We spend so many hours on Computer and not a
single day passes by without searching something [not the searches of vehicle
keys, purse, mobile and more material things when we start for office !] – ~ ~ doing a google ‘google, google panni paaru !’
~ and today’s search presented me something strange…
yesterday we saw the great doodle on Sir CV Raman. Google puts special doodles marking special
occasions and days. Google doodles on
homepage of the search engine has made it more fun and enjoyable for the users
and nobody ever anticipated that it would become so popular. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the
release of each new doodle and some even collect them! Here is what it was
today ….. !!!!
Human mind is very complex …. that explains
the songs like ‘aaru athu aazham ille – athu serum kadalum aazham ille’ [river
is not deep; the sea that it reaches is also not deep ~ if one were to ask
which is deep – it is the heart of a woman………’
- tinseldom has been exploring this for too long….
That is human psychology…. Psychology is an academic and
applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and
behaviors. Psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and
groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific
cases. Psychologists attempt to
understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior,
while also exploring the physiological and neurobiological processes that
underlie certain cognitive functions and behaviors. Ordinary people like us may
never understand the concepts like :
perception, cognition, attention, emotion, phenomenology, motivation,
brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships.
Then there is ‘psychopathology’ , also
called abnormal psychology, the study of
mental disorders and unusual or maladaptive behaviours. An understanding of the
genesis of mental disorders is critical to mental health professionals in
psychiatry, psychology, and social work.
Hermann Rorschach (1884 – 1922) was a Swiss
Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective
test known as the Rorschach inkblot test. This test was reportedly designed to reflect unconscious
parts of the personality that "project" onto the stimuli. In the
test, individuals are shown 10 inkblots – one at a time – and asked to report
what objects or figures they see in each of them ~ and you are infact seeing
one of them in today’s google doodle.
Rorschach was born in Zürich and spent his childhood and
youth in Schaffhausen, in northern
Switzerland
. He was known to his
school friends as Klecks, or "inkblot" since he enjoyed
klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot "pictures". Unlike his
classmates, however, Rorschach went on to make inkblots his life's work. Rorschach's
father, an art teacher, encouraged him to express himself creatively through
painting and drawing conventional pictures. Rorschach graduated in medicine at
Zurich
in 1909 and lived in
Russia
.
The Rorschach test (alsoRorschach inkblot
test) is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are
recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex
algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's
personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to
detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are
reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The tester and subject
typically sit next to each other at a table, with the tester slightly behind
the subject. This is to facilitate a “relaxed but controlled atmosphere”.
So, today’s Google doodle is clever, social,
good sense of humour representation of its maker – Rorschach. It pays homage to
Hermann Rorschach on his 129th birthday. In between perfectly
ordinary looking ink blots you will find many images depending on your mood and
what you want to see…….. the inkblot analogy was great success putting
Rorschach in limelight thought there have been some psychologists who feel that
it was not scientifically worthy……..
With regards –
S. Sampathkumar
8th Nov. 2013.