"Poems, plays, and novels…are never about life. As a layer of dead referents, however, they may serve to protect the life we live in their midst…Each fiction and dramatization of the therapy hour is the patient’s attempt to thicken his skin with literary crust, whose absence has caused him to be traumatized. By repeating theatrically, the trauma of the transcendental signified, the deathward trajectory of the overwhelming event, he attempts to cauterize the vulnerability and turn it into the metaphors of an impregnable literature.” -Greg Mogenson