Psyc in Literature: The Blog

I love Jim Shea’s weekly column in the Hartford Courant. This week’s column made references to some of the psychology topics we have talked about in class. Shea says that “One of the legitimate problems you do have after combing through cornflakes for a few hours is that you begin to see these weird Rorschach inkblot shapes, which can conjure up all kinds of psychological stuff like long-repressed images of nuns, crime scenes, your parents making out.” He is discussing the recent phenomonon in which people make national headlines because they found celebrity faces or biblical figures in toast or corn flakes or other food items.  These people later sell the food on ebay for thousands of dollars. This is similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. Maybe Mr. Rorschach could have used toast, and gotten more accurate results than he could have with the inkblots.

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