ABSTRACT
Personality cannot be described by a single perceptanalytic component nor even by many components, but by the intensity of each component and by the interrelationship among the components. The larger the number of components used in the description of a person, and the more intricately these components are related with one another, the fuller and the more specific is the description, decreasing the chances that the person described could be mistaken for someone else. The perceptanalytic components qualify one another. Thus, the full meaning of each component depends on the type and intensity (degree) of the other components which appear with it in the same Rorschach record. This logical relationship constitutes the principle of the interdependence of components, 18 or the PIC. One application of the PIC is a differentiation between the basic or constant and the amplified or inconstant meanings of components.
