A Therapist and Plenty of Questions

Almost finished with the book, I have realized the author, Mary Zimmerman, makes all her stories very modernized. Does this mean something? Is she trying to make the stories much easier to understand? It's rather interesting how she goes about writing the stories. Zues smokes and now Phaeton is relaxing on a yellow floaty in his backyard talking to a therepist. Interesting is all I can say.
Then the therapist really starts talking and she uses all these complicated words that only Phaeton seems to understand. For example, the quote, "Where better might we find a more precise illustration of the dangers of premature initation than in this ancient tale of alternating parental indulgence and neglect?" shows how she uses all these difficult words and it's all in one sentence! And I thought the author was trying to rewrite the stories to make them easier to understand. I mean, I do understand the sentence, but what about everyone else? And why put all those difficult words in?
So the story goes on and tells how Phaeton goes to his father, Apollo, and demands to be given the keys to his car (in the original story it's a chariot). Let's just say Phaeton causes the Earth to catch on fire. But that is not what caught my interest. It was what the therapist said at the very end of the story, "It has been said that the myth is a pubic dream, dreams are private myths." What does this mean? I got an idea that it is saying myths are what people dream of and that myths come from people's dreams. Interesting, I might add. But why is this important to the story of Phaeton?
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This is where characters begin to have only a one letter name. This is where the characters Q and A come into the picture. Yeah, you heard me right. Q and A. It's funny because it sounds as though "Q" stands for "question" and "A" stands for "answer". Is this a coincidence or is this really why Mary Zimmerman named them Q and A, to stand for the two other words? There's even proof that she could've indeed named them after the two words because in the script, Q is always asking questions, and A is always answering them.
It's really interesting, because the story, Eros and Psyche, is all about love. It explains it and proves of it. Q asked some very simple and wierd questions and A answered the questions with important answers, an example of which the question is wierd and the answers seems as though it's important, "What does the word "Psyche" mean?" asked Q, then A answered, "In Greek it means "the soul." What in the world does that have to do with anything? Maybe because Eros, or cupid, stands for love, Psyche means "the soul" of a person, or "the soul" that falls in love?