The creative process is a restitution of the destroyed mother. The artist makes the dangerous, the destructive, and the destroyed things of beauty to be loved. In using nonsense, the ego remains in control of the primary process and uses it to express hostility and rebellion against parental demands for logic and rational thinking. Like nonsense, the theater of the absurd is a sadistic, oral, devouring attitude, a cannibalistic feast. Unlike nonsense, though, there is not so much rebellion in absurd theater as there is an invitation to partake in the creative process. The artist of absurd theater takes risks in listening to and watching the creative process at work; he presents this process (rather than symbols) as something ugly, destructive, and restituted—a terrible and beautiful process to share.