RORSCHACH AND THE FABRICATION OF MODERN SUBJECTIVITY

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the Rorschach Test not as a psychometric instrument, but as a historical-cultural artifact active in the construction of modern subjectivity. Through a qualitative bibliographic review and critical-interpretative analysis, grounded in authors such as Foucault and Hacking, the study examines the intellectual context (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, modernism) that made it possible and desirable to believe that inkblots could reveal the intimate self. The results show that the test operates on a fundamental paradox between hermeneutics and positivism, and that its persistence is due less to empirical validity and more to its potency as a narrative device and "technology of the self." It is concluded that the Rorschach did not reflect but fabricated a psychological subject endowed with interpretable depth, offering a critical lens to question the foundations of contemporary psychological practices.