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> [“Rorschach’s body could activate his vision: “When, for example, I am unable to call up Schwind’s painting Falkenstein’s Ride as a memory image but I know how the knight is holding his right arm (‘knowing’ here as a nonperceptual mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/rorschach-s-body-could-activate-his-vision-when-for-example-i-am/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

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## More by Damion Searls

> [“Rorschach’s body could activate his vision: “When, for example, I am unable to call up Schwind’s painting Falkenstein’s Ride as a memory image but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/rorschach-s-body-could-activate-his-vision-when-for-example-i-am/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

> [“The psychology of the unconscious and abstract art, two groundbreaking ideas of the early twentieth century, were actually close cousins, with a common ancestor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/the-psychology-of-the-unconscious-and-abstract-art-two-groundbreaking/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

> [“From Binet, the idea of measuring imagination with inkblots spread to a string of American intelligence-testing pioneers and educators—Dearborn, Sharp, Whipple, Kirkpatrick. It reached…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/from-binet-the-idea-of-measuring-imagination-with-inkblots-spread-to/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

> [“Vischer had the same kind of experiences, likewise anticipating Rorschach’s. “When I observe a stationary object,” Vischer wrote, “I can without difficulty place myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/vischer-had-the-same-kind-of-experiences-likewise-anticipating/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

> [“It also comes as a surprise that the term was invented not to talk about altruism or acts of kindness, but to explain how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/it-also-comes-as-a-surprise-that-the-term-was-invented-not-to-talk/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

> [“Rorschach knew Binet’s work and was familiar with Binet’s own inspiration—Leonardo da Vinci, who in his “Treatise on Painting” described throwing paint at a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/rorschach-knew-binet-s-work-and-was-familiar-with-binet-s-own/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

> [“Vischer’s idea of a back and forth between projecting the self and internalizing the world—what he called a “direct continuation of the external sensation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/vischer-s-idea-of-a-back-and-forth-between-projecting-the-self-and/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

> [“Rorschach’s dissertation, which he finished in 1912, set out to define the physiological pathways that make empathy in Vischer’s sense possible. “On ‘Reflex Hallucinations’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damion-searls/rorschach-s-dissertation-which-he-finished-in-1912-set-out-to-define/)

[Damion Searls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damion-searls/)

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