Even though I am always telling people about what I see through my stories, only when I was watching my friend pray did I make a connection. I realized that I’ve been referencing a painting featuring Phillippe Pinel unshackling a mental patient from chains in 1876, but weirdly this was the first time I asked, “isn’t this the same mythology”? We’d have to ask Freud why I repressed this parallel. Maybe because it is just too much to bear-the fact that mental health wards 250 years later are worse- so it has never really consciously occurred to me.