ABSTRACT
Dr. Serbin is portrayed as a figure that haunts him. While he fires him "for incompetence" early on in the narrative, he will reappear in flashbacks, as a Goya monster, an ubiquitous ghost. Dr. Serbin’s psychiatric intractability had enormous ramifications. The moment he left Dr. Serbin, Zeta became a heavier drug abuser. He learned to live with his ulcers and mental unbalances and, moreover, to believe in dreams and hallucinations. The getaway led to nowhere and Zeta was hospitalized at San Francisco County General Hospital, in Potrero Hill. Whenever his state of mind improved, he would be allowed to work in a training camp. In Zeta's black-and-white universe, doctors were victimizes, cruel, unmerciful oppressors.
