With her reality television project Subjects, Toronto-based artist Zeesy Powers draws a line of flight from Freud to the present day by employing the “talking cure” as a vehicle of investigation into the human condition: “See yourself through someone else's eyes. Subjects is a new reality television series looking for participants to participate in one-on-one talk sessions to work out their problems, fears and unanswered questions.” Powers’s work distils the “talking cure” to its quintessence by offering an essential service for willing participants to “talk through past traumas and deal with current anxieties in an atmosphere of total transparency” for the purpose of unburdening the profound emotional weight of angst.