The Uninvited

know where the boundaries lie.’ I finishoff the F region with a dotted line goingthrough both K and A. ‘See? You can havedissociative behaviour without any of theviolence, so some of F must lie in theregion outside V. In Venn terms, fuguemay even be the universal, enclosingeverything else.’ I draw a stronger dottedline encompassing everything. Anotherthought strikes me. ‘But children whodestroy their own families are committingsabotage too. Maybe economic andemotional destruction are one and thesame circle.’ I sketch it out.‘So this is how you work.’‘When the problem calls for it.’We sit for a minute, not saying anything.Then she points to the circle marked K.‘The Home Office has set up specialised