The Girl Before

by J.P. Delaney

signature killers work from a script, engaging in repetitive behavior to the point of obsessiveness. —ROBERT D. KEPPEL and WILLIAM J. BIRNES, Signature Killers We may say that the patient does not remember anything of what he has forgotten and repressed, but acts it out. He reproduces it not as a memory but as an action; he repeats it, without, of course, knowing that he is repeating it. —SIGMUND FREUD, “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through”