COLOR QUIZ

Dr. Max Lûscher

 Select a color

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Select a color
 RESULTS
• The first group, labeled +,
represents what the test person
strives for
• The second group, labeled x,
represents the test subject's
condition right now.
• The third group, labeled =,
represents the personal qualities
that the test person does not use
right now, and towards which he is
indifferent
• The fourth group marked -,
represents the characteristics that
the person actively rejects
• Yellow = spontaneity, concern for others,
relax, cheerfulness, relief, change
• Grey = indifference, anonymous and neutral
role
• Violet = sensitivity and intuitive
understanding, magical, imagination, dream,
introvert
• Green = tough, endurance, will in action,
perseverance, tension
• Brown = physical well-being, home, family,
safety
• Black = total emptiness, denial, giving up,
abandonment
• Blue = peace and harmony, passive,
harmonious relationship, quiet enviroment,
concern for self
• Red = willpower, strong emotion, desire for
results/success, activities, ambition
 PERSONAL MOTIVATION
• Three of the four basic colors (GREEN, RED,
YELLOW), have connection with the ability to
maintain optimal activity over a longer period
• If those 3 colors are chosen in succession and
in the beginning of the sequence, it would
indicate that this person will do his job
properly and well integrated.
– Green - the person wants to complete the task
in order to increase his self-respect and his
reputation among other.
– Red - the person wants to win the victory, it is
to complete a task, he has set himself as a goal
and experience the satisfaction
– Yellow - the person wants to experience the
spontaneous joy that it is to throw himself into
something that interest him.
• If a work group moves further to the right or
become dissolved by the second choice, it
would indicate that the person may not be
very persistent in connection with work.
 Rejection of Basic Colors
• The further back the basic color is, the
more severe is the deviation
• Yellow :
• A basic color, which is located further discouragement,
back than a fifth place, represents a not
satisfied need, which will be a source of
irritability, and distrust
a feeling of loss and deprivation, which of others motifs
leads to anxiety
• Where there are unsatisfied needs, • Blue : too agreeable
there's anxiety, and thus compensatory and tolerant in
behavior that is excessive and
obsessive. situations that require
• The compensatory behavior will in such a firm hand, sticks to
cases be represented by the colors of
the first places. The compensatory the familiar, not willing
behavior will be in accordance with the
color, but it will be excessive and
to engage in any kind of
obsessive. risk
 GREY
• It can occur in the 5, 6 or 7 position
without being abnormal, but in all
other positions, it will be
psychologically significant.
• Grey in the 1 position wishes to remain
free of obligations, and not involved
• Grey in 2 and 3 position is short of
ability to act on immediate experiences
and has a feeling of inner
meaninglessness
• The person, who choses grey in 8
position rejects not-involvement. He
wants to participate in everything, with
the result that others find him curious
and intrusive. He is not afraid to
commit himself, because he does not
want to miss anything
 BLUE
• Blue represents depth of emotions and
concern for the self. It is a conservative
color that indicates a preference for the
well-known.
• The person who chooses blue in the 1
position wants emotional peace, harmony,
contentment, peace in his soul and an
ethical attitude to life. He needs to feel
confidence in people, who are close to him,
and feel that they trust him. A person who
chooses blue, want calmness and orderly
surroundings. He may also choose blue in
the first position from a physical need for
rest and relaxation and the opportunity to
regenerate.
• When blue is rejected, that is selected in
the 6, 7 or 8 position, it would indicate that
the need for peace of mind and trust in
close relations are not satisfied
• Rejected blue can result in a
compensatory choice of green
(want to free himself from family)
• Rejected blue and chooses orange
in the first position indicates desire
to escape from his dull life by
passionate behavior and or by
sexual promiscuity (the Don Juan
complex), mountain climbing,
racing or similar.
• Rejected blue and choose yellow
indicatse he is restlessly search for
practical solutions or philosophical
and religious ways to relieve his
situation
 GREEN
• Green is psychologically significant, when
it not occurs in second, third or fourth
position
• Passion for green indicates stable
attitudes and constant self-
consciousness and in particular
resistance to change, a sense of self-
controlled superiority, a feeling of having
control over things. He is inclined to
moralize and teach others. He can
compromise, but he will never forget his
goals.
• A person who chooses green on the 1
position, wants to maintain an idealized
image of himself through the
recognition, he expects because of his
wealth, his superior physique, his
intellect or his superior cultural level.
• The person, who chooses green on the sixth,
seventh or eighth position wants the same,
but he feels weakened by the resistance, he
has met and feels weak due to lack of
recognition.
• He places all the blame on others and can
therefore show a biting and disparaging
attitude towards the outside world.
• Rejected green compensated with blue
searching for a peaceful haven, where they
no longer have to strain themselves in order
to maintain their position and reputation.
• Rejected green compensated with orange
desire for excitement and stimulation, can
lead to violent uncontrolled temperament
outbreak, high blood pressure
• Rejected green compensated with yellow 
an "escape to freedom,“ with travels, new
hobbies and so on
 ORANGE/RED
• Significant, if it not occurs in one of the first
three positions
• It reflects a strong desire for activities that
gives intensity and rich experiences,the
impulse to action and the will to win in sports,
combat, and love and enterprising
productivity
• Orange in the 1 position wants intensity in
experiences and wholeness in life.
– Where it is selected for its own sake and not
as compensation suggest a controlled sexual
desire with occasional outbreaks of impulsive
sexual activity - sometimes gives in to
temptations without meaning anything special
– Orange in the first position as compensation
represent the sex drive is very strong, which
leads to sexual experimentation, promiscuity
and regular infidelity
– Orange in 3 or 4 position, sexuality is more
restricted, the person wants to limit to a
partner, who has come to understand his
needs and wishes
– Orange in fifth position sexuality has been
restricted.
– Orange chosen on the 6, 7, 8, indicates
that sexuality largely has disappeared or
become strictly monitored, or the
individual has become impotent or frigid.
• Rejects orangeoverstimulation, becomes
easily irritated, either because he lacks vitality
or because he feels burdened difficulties. He
feels that the surroundings are dangerous and
out of control. In this situation orange does not
seem strengthening but threatening. Rejected
orange means : "seeking protection against
anything that can excite, annoy or weaken
further.“
– Rejected orange compensating blue often
accompanied by a masochistic clinging to a
sexual partner, with an experience of not
being loved.
– Rejected orange compensating green is
rare. (A person who tries to get through
physical and mental fatigue using only
willpower)
– Rejected orange compensating yellow
indicates a desperate search for a way out.
 YELLOW
• Psychologically significant, when it not
occurs on the second, third, fourth or
fifth place.
• Yellow in 1 position indicates desire for
relaxation and hope or expectation of
greater happiness, and suggests some
conflicts that need to be resolved.
• Rejected yellow and places it in the
6,7,8, has been disappointed in his
expectations and feels empty, isolated
and lonely. He sees the spontaneity and
adventureas irrelevant and superficial.
Rejected yellow suggests that
disappointment has led to a simmering
rebellion, irritability, pessimism and
suspicion towards others and their
intentions.
• Rejected yellow, choose blue
indicates a desire for peace and
calmness and a clinging to the
familiar
• Rejects yellow, choose green suggest
that he tries to escape his hopeless
situation by striving for the security
that can be offered by prestige and
position.
• Rejected yellow choose orange
indicate he seeks to escape his
feelings of disappointment and
isolation by seeking intense
experiences and adventures -
especially exaggerated sexual
adventures.
 VIOLET
• It is psychologically significant when it
occures in the 1 or 8 position
• Passion for violet can indicate a desire for
an intimate erotic fusion with another or
a desire for an intuitive and mystical
mutual understanding
• The color is preferred by teenagers,
pregnant women, homosexuals of both
sexes and people who have problems
with the thyroid gland.
• The world is a magical place, where
everything is possible, emotional
confusion and immaturity
• When a person prefers violet on the 1
place, it must be investigated closer. Is it
caused by immaturity, sexual deviations
or gland problems?
• People who prefer violet, want to
be accepted because of their charm
and charisma, for their wonderful
behavior and because of their
winning personality.
• When it is on the 8 place, the
person has totally rejected any
desire for a mystical intimacy with
another person, because it is not
possible or appropriate in his
present situation. This will result in
an immediate reluctance to commit
himself in relation to other people
or tasks, until he knows more
exactly, what that relationship will
imply
 BROWN
• It is psychologically significant if it does not
occur on the 5, 6 or 7 place.
• Brown represents the need for roots, a
home, a family or other social affiliation.
• If brown occurs especially in 1 or 2, it
indicates an increased need for physical rest
and satisfaction, and relief from a problem,
may be a physical disease or defect, conflict
and insecurity or other problems, which the
the person feels that he is unable to manage
• Brown in 8 place the need for relaxed
comfort has been completely suppressed. In
this situation the person will consider
physical wellbeing and sensual satisfaction
as weaknesses that he presently can not
afford.
• The person, who in this way rejects brown,
wants others to see him as a steel man
having no need for sociability, delicious
food, good wine and a good long sleep in a
warm bed.
 BLACK
• It is psychologically significant, when it
occurs in any other places than the 8 place
• A person prefers black means he rejects
everything in a protest against a situation
he considers as hopeless, a protest against
life and fate
– Black in the 1, wants to deny everything,
protesting against status quo,fate, and
behaves probably prematurely and and
unwise in this protest.
– Black in the 2, indicates he is willing to give
up everything, provided he gets, what is
represented by the color of the first
position.
– black in the 3 indicated he will refrain from
everything else, if only he gets, what is
represented by the two colors on the first
and second position
– Black in 8 is the psychologically most normal
and represents a desire not to reject
anything and keep control of own actions
• Orange before black, suggests that if
he will have fulfilled his exaggerated
wishes, then he will renounce
everything else.
• Blue before black, indicates that only
if the person gets peace and
harmony, he will renounce
everything else.
• yellow before black suggest that he
expects a dramatic and disaster-like
action will put an end to his
problems.
• Grey before black indicates he
expects to find protection against
the intolerable situation through
total non-commitment.
 COLOR PAIR
• “Green - Orange"  meaningful
activity and controlled initiative. With
green as the first selected color,
actions will lead to greater authority
and prestige for the self, leadership,
management and excercise of control
• “Blue - Orange"  cooperative
enterprise and emotional fullness,
the ability of a good cooperation with
colleagues for the common good in
favor of the organization, a
harmonious mixture of sexuality and
care. When blue is selected prior to
red, it characterizes greater emphasis
on harmony and cooperation than on
activity
• If two or more colors in the second round still
lies beside the color that they were adjacent to
in the first round, although they may change
position and internal order, so there exists a
pair, and this or these pairs must be marked
with a circle and their relevant function symbol
• In the presence of pairs the allocation of
function symbols to be done according to the
following algorithm:
1. The first pair (or single number) to be
marked: +
2. The second pair (or single number) to be
marked: x
3. The last pair (or single number) to be
marked: -
4. The rest to be marked: =