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