Search engine major Google on Friday celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. The doodle features his famous personality test, now known as the 'Rorschach inkblot test'.

The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while a pair of hand holds a piece of paper with the inkblot.

Users are asked to share their interpretation of the inkblot onsocial media  platforms such as Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter.

Born in in Zurich, Switzerland, Rorschach loved of klecksography – the art of turning inkblots into known images. This later shaped his career as a psychiatrist.

Rorschach was amused by the buzz surrounding the psychoanalyst movement. It  reminded him of his inkblot paintings.

This led to Rorschach’s analysis of why responses to the same inkblots paintings varied on a person to person basis. He started analysing responses.

After years of conducting these tests, he wrote Psychodiagnostik – a book describing how inkblot tests can be effectively used in psychoanalysis – in 1921.

Rorschach died when he was 37, suffering from a ruptured appendix.

abhishek.l@thehindu.co.in

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