“There is a well-known scene in Woody Allen’s Take The Money And Run (1969) when Virgil Starkwell (Allen) takes a psychological test to join the Navy, but is thwarted by his lascivious unconscious. The psychological measure that proves to be Starkwell’s undoing—rejected, he turns to a life of crime—is the Rorschach inkblot test, devised almost a century ago by Carl Jung’s compatriot and fellow psychologist, Hermann Rorschach. Although Rorschach would die young, at 37, his namesake remains embedded in our perception of psychology, alongside Freud’s couch and Pavlov’s dog.” >full text (c) open culture 2013
Archive for Switzerland
The Rorschach Test: what do YOU see?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, Hermann Rorschach, psychology, psychopathology, Rorschach test, Switzerland on 13 November 2013 by delclemWater Resources Privatized?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, privatization, resources, Switzerland, water supply on 28 April 2013 by delclemAustrian A-hole of the month? “Do you believe water is a basic human right? According to the Nestlé CEO water is a foodstuff that should be privatized, not a human right: Peter Brabeck says that with the global population rising water is not a public right, but a resource that should be managed by businessmen.”
(c) AMERICAN LIVE WIRE, 2013
“L’ Europe du goût”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, France, gastronomy, map, Stereotyping, Switzerland, taste on 9 April 2013 by delclem
This is a gastronomic map of European “taste” hanging in a French hospital:
Interestingly, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, and the rest of CEE don’t seem to exist here. Photo (c) Sabine Burg, 2013
Hesse has been dead for 50 years now…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Germany, Hermann Hesse, Literature, review, Switzerland on 9 August 2012 by delclem
“Hermann Hesse spent his life searching for truth and inner harmony outside Germany. Yet his quests to the East ultimately led him back to the West and to the realization that the alternatives he found in the East offered no short cut to salvation. To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, Gunnar Decker presents a new biography of the successful author, one which also explains the Orientalism in his work.” >review (c) Qantara.de 2012
Vaclav Pozarek
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Czech Repulic, Switzerland, Vaclav Pozarek on 11 December 2011 by delclem
Homeboy Jesus
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, art, David LaChapelle, Jesus, photography, Switzerland on 20 September 2011 by delclemThe series Jesus is my Homeboy by the American photographer David LaChapelle on display in the Protestant French Church in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 2008.
delirium clemens 