The Anamnesis of Love That Was Ended By a Spectator
Psychosis 4:48 is a fragmentary text with an unconventional dramatic plan, a highly emotional ride across a fragmented human consciousness. By its very composition, themes, undetermined space-time and characters (no gender is specified, but neither is the number), the text compels a distinctly loose interpretation. However, the basic information for a sort of orientation can be deduced: the fragmentary story of a patient and her psychiatrist. The course of her treatment in a psychiatric hospital is accompanied by a detailed medical history and narrative monologues that alternate between the poetic and the prosaic. The thematic framework is also wide-ranging: suicide, critiques of outdated psychiatric practices, religious and social aspects, the symbolic linking of time and space, peer compatibility, and toxicity (which is based on the role of the dominant versus the submissive), and, finally, redemptive love – redemption or just a subtle drop of liquid into a sea of suffering.
