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An attempt to demonstrate how the actor elaborates the character he is representing leads to five important points: the different stages by which the character is elaborated; the particular means of identification used by the
actor; authenticity in the character and its creation; the interplay between the character and the actor; and finally, the creative act in and by the actor. The author arrives at two fundamental aspects of the creative process. One is that an actor who has talent, no matter how neurotic he may be, will not deny, disassociate, or repress the character, but rather assimilate the total picture in such a way that the actor can tolerate his own difficulties and subordinate them to his creative need. The other fundamental aspect includes the specific type of identification based on the ability to project and identify totally and/or partially; the partial introjection and identification with more than one character in the play; and the ability to identify with the denied part of the self, to use all the elements of the projection, and finally, to achieve a complete synthesis.