Rorschach test is a fluoroscope into the psyche

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An example of metaphor reported in poopular scinece writing:

[Rorschach (ink-blots) test is] "a fluoroscope into the psyche"

Samuel Beck

Samuel Beck, research psychologist, as reported in Searls, D. (2017). The Inkblots. Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test and the power of seeing. Simon & Schuster.

Note that here a scientific concept (X-ray imaging technology, a fluoroscope) is used as the supposed familiar comparison.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.