Freud: Through The Looking Glass

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No sooner did Alice go through the Looking Glass when this happens:

Something began squeaking on the table behind Alice, and made her turn her head 
just in time to see one of the White Pawns roll over and begin kicking: 
she watched it with great curiosity to see what would happen next.

"It is the voice of my child!" the White Queen cried out as she rushed past the King.


Symbolic interpretations of chess are as old as the sky.
Symbolic interpretations of everything may be as necessary as the sky.
The Godfather of Psychoanalysis knew this better than most of us.

Sigmund Freud is famously associated
with the Oedipal Complex wherein
the male child wants to "kill" the father...
Freud  applied the Oedipal Complex to  chess
which is a symbolic battleground.

Shame on you,Sigmund.
You should know better than that.

So close and yet so far:
It is not your own father you want to kill in chess.
It is the enemy's father.




There is a difference.
If not, you might as well let the yin be the yang
or send us all back to the Big Bang.
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