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