The Logical Axis in the Rorschach
A Study on Alternative Ways of Organizing the Sensory Universe
Abstract
The paradigm of complexity that rules the current conception of knowledge proposes to observe and understand reality through multiple perspectives. This paradigm emphasizes relations and interactions, leading us to pay special attention to transformations that take place over time. These concepts are particularly valid when reading a subject’s Rorschach productions, inasmuch as the goal is to make visible psychic motions, modalities thereof, as well as the subject’s defense strategies and effectiveness. After having analyzed the spatial, temporal, and bonding perspectives elsewhere, as well as the linguistic resources used in responses, the author focuses in this paper on the logical axis, trying to show subjects’ prevailing codes for attributing meaning and significance to the realities they are seeing. An attempt is made to find out the rules constraining subjects to see and think in a certain way, thus, determining their behavior. From this angle, the goal lies in making plain the problems that subjects have regarding each plate-specific configuration, the way and words they resort to when rationalizing their responses, and the kind of solutions they reach.
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