ABSTRACT
The capacity for inner creation and the quality of basic character attitudes are linked to kinesthetic perception in Rorschach’s concept of the movement response. This linkage makes the movement response a key concept in Rorschach’s test. As I hope to show in this chapter, the implications of Rorschach’s ideas about the movement response not only make it one of the most important tools for the analysis of character structure in the test; they also throw light on the nature of the mechanism of projection, on its relation to the process of empathy, and on problems of autistic thought and perception and of creative experience.
