BtZ: Rosie on Blob//Adenoid

[Smoke Teff]

He goes on: "with the projec-tive tech*nique*, nothing he can do,
con-scious or otherwise, can pre-*vent* us, from finding what we wish, to
know. We, are in control. He, cannot *help*, himself."

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> In case this didn't get posted before, on p. 83 we have Rózsavölgyi and de
> la Nuit arguing about what tests to give Slothrop.
>
> Rosie:
>
> "We are no de*sign*-ing for him, a so-*called*, 'projec-tive' test. The
> most fa*mil*-iar ex*am*-ple of the *type*, is the Rorschach *ink-*blot.
> The *ba*-sic theory, is, that when given an un*struc*-tured stimulus,
> some shape-less *blob *of ex*per*-ience, the subject, will seek to
> impose, *struc*-ture *on *it. How, he goes a-*bout* *struc*-turing this
> blob, will reflect his *needs*, his hopes--will pro*vide*, us with *clues*,
> to his dreams, *fan*-tasies, the deepest *re*-gions of his mind."
>
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