摘要
John Nash(1928-2015)won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.However,his world fame is just as much due to the book by Sylvia Nasar entitled A Beautiful Mind and the film based on it,with the same title,starring Russel Crowe,both of which portray his struggle with schizophrenia,which lasted from 1957 until his death.The book also reveals his homosexuality,which the film ignores.The purpose of this article is to advance the hypothesis that Nash’s schizophrenia was caused by the repression of his homosexuality,thus confirming Freud’s theory that sexual repression is the most common cause of psychosis.
