ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this book is to contribute to the understanding of Rorschach’s test. Despite the wealth of stimulating thoughts and implications contained in his book, Rorschach felt that the results of his “experiment” were predominantly empirical observations and that its theoretical foundations were, “for the most part, still quite incomplete.” 1 Of the extensive literature on the test, by far the greatest part has been devoted to adding to these empirical observations and to refinements of technique; relatively few attempts have been made to inquire into the rationale of the test and to contribute to its theoretical foundations. This is all the more surprising since Rorschach’s test and his book offer, among other things, so far as I know, the first major contribution to the problem of perception and personality, which, in the past twenty or thirty years, has become one of the foremost issues in psychology. Thus the gap between empirical observations and theoretical understanding, though somewhat narrower than in 1921, when Rorschach’s book was published, is quite large.
