Sunday 17 June, 2007
This girl needs therapy
Dr Melfi: Sophie, have you considered that this inane series of cartoons about cats working and the use of domestic space is a reflection of your ambivalence about returning to work? Do you share Wilson's conflicted feelings about the work place? And like Bird do you like dressing for work? Do you feel that by allowing yourself to be employed by a corporation you, in fact, become the system's pet? And that the system may not treat you as kindly as you treat your beloved Bird and Wilson?
Sophie: Why that's an interesting point you make there, Dr Melfi.
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Views from the Floor
elsewhere says:
Hmm, but doesn't she usually ask one or at most two questions at a time? (a pedant speaks).
Has anyone ever had a therapist as good as Jennifer Melfi? I doubt it. HBO scriptwriters should obviously help therapists work on their language.
sophie says:
why yes, miss elsewhere, that is true. however in the interests of audience interest, i compressed the series of questions. take my 'uh, huh' and 'mmm' and nods between each question as read.
amanda says:
keep doing the wilson cartoons!!! Dr Melfi who??
Sophie says:
Wilson was pleased by your interest. Dr Melfi is (was) Tony Soprano's fictional therapist. And I love her (in a healthy transference kind of way).
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