Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA13819 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:58:56 GMT X-Originating-IP: [137.110.248.206] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Abstractism Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 06:53:14 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F140aXHMzGCMcR00004318@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Feb 2002 14:53:15.0164 (UTC) FILETIME=[ACA505C0:01C1AD8B] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>On 02/03/02 23:37, Grant Callaghan said this-
>
> >The
> >doctor was not trying to put a thought into their minds with the ink
>blots
> >but to pull one out.
>
>I think there are enough criticisms about the Rorschach and other tests
>of its type that purport that there is indeed a 'doctor trying to put a
>thought into their minds', and that the setting and the context are prime
>movers of this criticism.
>
>Intent and meaning are often obscured within each other. The montage
>school of cinema is based upon the elicitation of certain emotions and
>reactions from (possibly) unrelated, and by themselves meaningless,
>images.
>
>But, yes, the most valid criticism of such tests is that, indeed, nothing
>but the bias and pretensions of the doctor are being exposed.
>
>- Wade
>
What you see is what you get. ;-)>
Grant
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