[Leica] Re: Seeing and writing

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Feb 10, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Phil wrote:

> "Meditations on a Triptych," in which he displayed three photos of a
> familiar domestic scene and wrote three essays in a kind of stream of
> consciousness style to express what he imagined he could deduce  
> from the
> pictures.  These meditations included his interpretation of  
> specific details
> (clothing, body language, colors, facial expressions, etc.).  Each  
> runs
> several pages in length.


It sounds very much like Henry Murray's "Thematic Apperception Test".  
The TAT is a psychological projective test where the subject is asked  
to tell a story about thematically ambiguous pictures. It, and the  
Rorschach Ink Blot test are used by clinical psychologists and  
psychiatrists to tease out the various layers of the unconscious. If  
you are truly honest when you interpret the photos, who knows what  
you may reveal?

Larry Z