Our Every Day Oracle
What shape do you see in the image above? Many of us have thought for a moment that we had found a unique shape in the silhouette of a rock, in a stain on the wall, in the dregs of our morning coffee or even in a passing cloud. In addition to this peculiar type of perception that provide us a sense of discovery – even creating an illusion of “superpower” in our childhood – it is also responsible for millenary principles of artistic creation, for countless stories about apparitions of sacred images, in addition to marking a very rich chapter in the history of psychology, phenomenology, and semiotics through the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the homonymous test that popularized it. Learn more about the history of the author and the method in this TEDEd.
Principal source of research: Damion Searls - TED-Ed. How does the Rorschach inkblot test work?
José M. da Costa is a researcher, designer, and founder of Storiologia.
