therapy episode 1.2 transcript (excerpt)
Michael has his own deep seeded trauma resulting in an Oedipal case of conjunctivitis.
Into the mind's eye.
Michael : Vincent. Good morning.
Vincent: Oh , good morning Michael . How are you?
Michael: Oh, look, its been. Yeah, it's been a pretty bad couple of days , actually . I'm....
Vincent: Oh yeah. Um. Yeah, well, what's...What's been going on?
Michael: Well, I mean , the timings kind of been awful because I see a therapist myself , right? So. And so, so. And it's like a ... like a weekly thing, you know ? We like to keep it , you know , real regular. And... and , you know , you know , the day after i saw my therapist and , you know , so I'm kind of now in a bit of a bind because I won't be seeing ... I won't be seeing her ...for another like almost a week now .I , I got a , I got a photo from , from my partner and it really knocked me .. you know like and I'm just
Vincent: What kind of photo?
Michael: Oh well, so...so...so... SAM! , umm SAM! be quiet! ...so SAM! Well so I left. I left ... Sam with ... with .. my partner . I had to dash and .. And she and ...and she sent me a photo of ...
Vincent : Yeah?
Michael: ... of Sam on my pillow. And it was obviously , you know just judging by the sort of vantage of the photo , the perspective and so forth , you know , obviously , you know , she was in bed , you know , with Sam on my pillow , you know and i saw it and I was , you know , it was , you know sent with the best intentions . And it was very , very cute and very loving and things . But , you know , I think i may have mentioned , you know , I'm sort of , you know , very strictly Freudian and all this , all this sort of , you know , all this , you know Oedipus stuff started , you know , to just overwhelm me. You know , I don't know if you , if you know about the Oedipus thing.
Vincent : Yeah, well, it just? What? You just started thinking about that story or what?
Michael : Well, yeah. Yeah! Well , so I mean, you know...I mean , it's > It's a ... it's a very ...look , you know , it's...
Vincent : Did you poke your eyes out? Is that the right story?
Michael: no, no
Vincent : so?