Google is commemorating the 129th birthday of Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, who created the famous inkblot test, with its interactive doodle.
Psychoanalyst Rorschach was born on 8 November 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland and as a child he was known as ‘Klecks’, as he loved klecksography, the art of turning inkblots into recognisable images, which he later used to shape his career as a psychiatrist.
According to the Independent, he started showing the inkblot paintings to children in order to analyse their wildly varying responses and after years of analysis wrote Psychodiagnostik, a book describing how inkblot tests can be effectively used in psychoanalysis.
The black and white doodle features a cartoon version of the renowned psychoanalyst sitting with a notepad and pen, while disembodied hands hold a piece of paper containing a simple inkblot in front of the screen.
Users are then encouraged to share their interpretation of the inkblot on Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter.
The report added that Rorschach died at the age of 37, less than a year after writing the ground-breaking work, killed by peritonitis brought on by a ruptured appendix. (ANI)