It was a combination of the two. James Gray said as much. Good sources to draw from by all means! But the dime store Freud stuff was heavy handed to say the least.
Just like AN, really. I’m pretty good at letting heavy handed go, I know a lot of the audience needs their nose led, so long as it’s feeling natural. And once you get to know how nuts his dad went, all that other stuff like the constant evals and the happy pills makes sense. There’s a lot of “let’s not let this happen again”.