ABSTRACT
Starting with Rorschach, researchers have paid attention to the ways in which subjects go about organizing their responses to the inkblots. Whether taken as a discrete whole or broken into separate elements described individually, subjects are faced with the task of deciding how to deal with part-whole relationships among the elements that make up each blot. Between these two extremes of global whole responses, on the one hand, and simple details, on the other, subjects have the opportunity to link together individual details in order to form a more complex response made up of a combination of details. The resulting “combinative” response will, of course, involve the whole inkblot, substantial portions of it, or two smaller details organized together by some linking idea.
