CHESS, OEDIPUS AND THE MATER DOLOROSA, by Norman Reider.

NEW YORK: A separately bound reprint from "Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 47, Number 2, 1960". First thus printing.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by NORMAN REIDER on the front cover: "(??) / from Norman Reider / 2380 Sutter, S.F."

From the first page: "The psychoanalytic study of play and games has been particularly rewarding, but no game is so full of possibilities for such study as that of chess...It crystallizes within its elaborate structure the family romance, is replete with symbolism, and has rich potentialities for granting satisfactions and for sublimation of drives...[there are] numerous facets inherent in a study of chess: the fascination and the extent of the addiction to the game; the psychological factors involved in its historical development; its social and therapeutic value; its relation to love and aggression; the problem of genius in chess, ego functions..."

GOOD condition, the covers are toned and have offsetting; inner pages lightly toned, there are some relevant pencil margin notes and marks here and there, otherwise tight and bright.

About the author NORMAN REIDER (from OAC the Online Archives of California):

******Norman Reider was born in Canton, Ohio in 1907 and passed away in San Francisco in 1989. He settled in San Francisco in 1946, where he remained until his death in 1989. During this time, he maintained a private practice and became involved with the San Francisco Society and Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he was Chair of the Education Committee for many years. He also served as Chief of Psychiatry and Senior Psychiatrist at Mount Zion Medical Center. He was a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the Northern California Medical Society. He also served on the board of the ACLU of Northern California.******