masochistic enjoyment of psychological horrors

• senselessness derives from a breakdown in the thematic motif: it no longer holds events together and gives them sense, … provides the mode of experiencing … patient is in search of a new story, or of reconnecting with old one … sustaining fiction, but that she had not read it for its hermetic possibilities, its covert meanings … taken her story literally in the clinical language … a tale of sickness, abuse, wastage of the best years … story needed to be doctored, not her … reimagining … her soul’s endurance through, and masochistic enjoyment of, these psychological horrors … a victim of the story in which she had put her history
• therapist-patient collaborating in a mutual fiction story

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1. therapist-patient collaborating in a mutual fiction story

   … counter-transference, the therapist-writer’s self-indulgence in the story. Two authors are now collaborating in a mutual fiction of therapy,