ABSTRACT
Analytical framework is designed to analyse different types of meaning-making about mental health and associated identities in the patterns of pleasure in fictional forms. In this framework, drama is defined as the examination of human interaction at its roots. The key focus is how dramas significatory components contribute to representations, especially about a characters condition and identity. Writers David Chase, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess use the therapeutic space to explore Sopranos self-identity and his angry relationships within the world. Simultaneously they offer audience a view into his psychological situation, his likeable character, a safe site to harbour common conditions. He also represents a parallel spirit who, as Kierkegaard puts it, is a self not yet a self, an identity struggling with existential anxieties; a person with whom audience can identify but also safely maintain distance from because of his morally repugnant occupation.
