Chess-Sinthome: A New Approach To Bobby Fischer´s Psychosis

The psychology of chess players has called the attention of several researchers for more than a century. Classical works like those of Jones and Fine, in line with Freud´s theory, were based on the unconscious motivations of the mind in order to explain the psychosis of great chess players from the 19th century such as Paul Morphy and William Steinitz. 

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However, there is a notable lack of scientific works with a plausible hypothesis about Bobby Fischer´s paranoid psychosis and its relationship with his prodigious performance. Bobby Fisher was a North American chess player, world champion in 1972. Consistent hypotheses have been written about in old freudian psychoanalytical papers, although not directly related to the Fischer case. Read More>>>>