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When in 1921, after experimenting with a children’s game, Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach published a study into his famous psychological test, he lastingly impacted our understanding of seeing and perceiving images. The test was developed with the purpose of establishing a psychodiagnosis based on a subject’s perceptions of ten inkblot images. By looking at the images, a patient supposedly projects their secret desires, complexes and conflicts into the visual stimuli generated by the inkblots while partly revealing their personality through their perceptions. This is due to the test …