I remember a friend of mine in college did Tarot readings, and it seemed to me that the point might be to arrange evocative images and see what stories your mind naturally made of them -- that it was the stories that really told you something, not the cards. I referred to them as Jungian Rorschach blots. Didn't know that Rorschach blots themselves were supposed to be Jungian.
My mother said in the psychology course she took in medical school the professor made everyone talk about their interpretations, and then said cheerfully that one of his patients had ignored the whole large blot, focusing on three dots down in the corner, saying "This is God and me and my father having tea in the garden." That, he said, was an example of an abnormal reading. The students, who had been very worried that everything looked to them like pelvises, sat back relieved.
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My mother said in the psychology course she took in medical school the professor made everyone talk about their interpretations, and then said cheerfully that one of his patients had ignored the whole large blot, focusing on three dots down in the corner, saying "This is God and me and my father having tea in the garden." That, he said, was an example of an abnormal reading. The students, who had been very worried that everything looked to them like pelvises, sat back relieved.