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RORSCHACH AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Jan Bazant Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Charles University

Definition of consciousness

CONSCIOUSNESS IS

Meanings of consciousness
Consciousness

Self-consciousness

waking state experience mind

proneness to embarrassment self-detection

self-recognition
awareness of awareness self-knowledge

Adapted by ZEMAN, A. (2001). Consciousness. Brain, 124, pp. 1263-1289.

Interpretation of the chance forms

Rorschach
we

conclude that there must be a kind of threshold beyond which perception (assimilation without consciousness of assimilative effort) becomes interpretation (perception with consciousness of assimilative effort).

RORSCHACH, H. (1981). Psychodiagnostics. Bern: Hans Huber Publisher.

Interpretation

MINIATURIST, French . (Active c. 1380 in Paris). Narcissuss spring in Roman de la Rose (Guillaume De Lorris, c1230-35). Decoration of manuscript. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Seeing is believing

Varela

construing

enactive paradigm construction of reality depends on perceiving subject, but structure of perceiving subject is formed by reality

Merleau-Ponty

WORLD

PERCEPTION

structure is object of consciousness consciousness is caught in perceiving body and interlaced with world

structuring

Principle of homology
Content-based approach

Cognition-based approach

emphasis on symbolic thinking projection-centered symbolic description of life events, relationships, etc.

emphasis on decision making and problem solving perception-centered impact of cognition on life events, relationships, etc.

Embodied consciousness

Lakoff

structure of mind is characterized by cognitive models, which are embodied cognitive models are in systematic connection with embodied terms human being requires a functioning human brain, in living human body, interacting with complex physical, social, and cultural environments, in an ongoing flow of experience

Damasio

Dissociative disorder

impaired or lost conscious and selective control over psychical and behavioral function
loss

of identity lost integrity of memories loss of sensation or perception lost control of body movement

Dissociation in Rorschach

Amstrong and Loewenstein (1990), Brand et al (2006), Leavitt and Labott (1996), Wagner et al (1974, 1983, 1986), Scroppo et al. (1998) intellectualized, reflective coping style characterized by non-emotional introspection with tendency to emotional restraint ROR s stimuli could trigger trauma contents

Psychical distance

Bullough
It

is a difference of outlook, due to the insertion of distance. This distance appears to lie between our own self and its affection, using the latter term in its broadest sense as anything which affect our being, bodily or spiritually. aesthetic consciousness
BULLOUGH, E. (1912). Psychical distance as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle. British J. of Psychology, 5, pp. 87-117.

Morgenthalers examination

selecting and sorting of tables by pleasantness and unpleasantness or by degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness

Arrangement of tables

III II I

VII VI V IV

X IX VIII

Uniqueness of Rorschach

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