The title of this discussion has been borrowed, of all places, from an animated movie cartoon series, popular at about the time Dr. Hermann Rorschach was experimenting with. ink blots and writing the Psychodiagnostik. This series of cartoons was called "Out of the Ink Well," and usually began with a picture of the artist opening an inkwell in preparation for drawing. To his consternation, little black animal-and human-like figures would rush out of the bottle, cavort around for a while, ultimately to be rounded up after considerable trouble, and swept back into the inkwell. This would then be tightly corked, while the artist breathed a sigh of relief. Like so many other parallelisms between the movies and life, the little demons released by Rorschach were not ultimately rounded up and returned to the bottle, where, safely corked, they lived happily forever after. On the contrary, they still are cavorting merrily, not only in the locality where they were released some nineteen years ago, but all over the world.Certainly, Rorschach did not invent the ink blot. Long before he was born there were in existence elaborate systems for exercising the imagination by means of ink blots. Nor was he the first to conceive of the possibility of ink blots as media for exploring personality, for as early as 1895, Binet and Henri (la) suggested that they be used for studying various personality traits, especially visual imagination. In the next four or five years, four well-known and often quoted studies by Dearborn (3a, 4a), Sharp (10a), and Kirkpatrick (5a) were published. In the first edition of his Mami-al of Mental and Physical Tests (Ha), published in 1910, a year before Rorschach began his work with ink blots, Whipple reviewed these