Although there is a special inherent bond between psychoanalysis and drama, there can be no real marriage. Each has special knowledge, exchangeable but never interchangeable. In criticism of the theater, however, the analyst can help in several ways: he can be expert in the authenticity of those dramas which claim to be psychological; he can clarify psychological nuances within a play; he can demonstrate the unconscious connections between a dramatist's life and his created works.