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Contributions to Psychohistory: IX. The Personality and Genius of Blaise Pascal (1623–1662): An Interpretation Based on the Concepts of Hermann Rorschach,M.D.
This paper uses concepts of Hermann Rorschach as set forth in his book Psychodiagnostics to interpret the personality and genius of Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a figure of great contradictions, complex and in some sense mysterious, about whom few studies using modern psychology have been attempted.
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