Bøger af Damion Searls

The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot testNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR *;New York Post*;Sunday Times(UK)*;Irish IndependentIn 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from Futurism to Dadaism. A visual artist himself, Rorschach had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say, as Freud thought, than what we see.After Rorschach's early death, his test quickly made its way to America, where it took on a life of its own. Co-opted by the military after Pearl Harbor, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an advertising staple, a cliche in Hollywood and journalism, and an inspiration to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay Z. The test was also given to millions of defendants, job applicants, parents in custody battles, and people suffering from mental illness or simply trying to understand themselves better. And it is still used today.In this first-ever biography of Rorschach, Damion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries and a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach's family, friends, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the test's creation, its controversial reinvention, and its remarkable enduranceand what it all reveals about the power of perception. Elegant and original, The Inkblots shines a light on the twentieth century's most visionary synthesis of art and science.Praise for The Inkblots';Impressively thorough . . . part biography of Herman Rorschach, psychoanalytic super sleuth, and part chronicle of the test's afterlife in clinical practice and the popular imagination . . . Searls is a nuanced and scholarly writer . . . genuinely fascinating.'TheNew York Times Book Review';A marvelous book about how one man and his enigmatic test came to shape our collective imagination. The Rorschach test is a great subject andThe Inkblotsis worthy of it:beguiling, fascinating, and full of new discoveriesevery time you look.'David Grann, author ofThe Lost City of Z

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The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture.

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In his debut collection, Damion Searls gives us five extraordinary tales of the life of the mind in America today. ¿56 Water Street¿ and ¿Goldenchain¿ follow writers whose projects only lead them deeper into the labyrinth of modern relationships and friendships. The nasty office satire ¿The Cubicles¿ and the atmospheric ¿A Guide to San Franciscö take place in the sun and fog of West Coast dreams. In the final story, ¿Dialogue Between the Two Chief World Systems,¿ a Hungarian beauty creates a scholarly conundrum with surprising parallels to the book as a whole.Set amidst Ethiopian healing scrolls and sponges of the Adriatic and the guy who invented flashing the temperature on bank clocks, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going plays in the intersection of knowledge and life in contemporary America. Searls¿s flights of fancy and painterly eye for detail introduce a range of intelligent characters feeling their way toward complex moral and personal truths.