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This is a portrait of Sigmund Freud.  The title, "Tell Me About Your Mother...", is a tongue in cheek reference to his well known predilection to the Oedipus Complex.  I chose to place his image within a Rorschach inkblot test. I did this because even though the test was invented by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, it was ultimately Freud's work that led to its creation.  Rorschach was a Freudian psychoanalyst that studied under Eugen Bleuler, the psychiatrist that taught Carl Jung, probably the most famous neo-Freudian psychoanalyst.
Within the image, one notices not one, but two renderings of Freud's likeness.  This is meant to symbolize the conscious & subconscious mind, which Freud believed could be bridged together through psychoanalysis and free association.  Many believe that each side of a Rorschach test is an exact mirror image of the other, but that is actually not the case.  Each side looks strikingly similar to the other, but there are indeed small variations between the two.  I used this to my advantage, making the different shades of gray on the conscious side a bit lighter than the subconscious side.  This, of course, is a very literal representation of the idea that our subconscious is in the deeper, darker portions of our psyche. I also incorporated three large solid black pieces to the image.  These symbolize the Id (the center one because it is the instintual part of us), the ego, and the superego (left and right, as they are the critical & moral parts of us); which Freud believed to be the three separate components of the psychic apparatus that make up one's self.