DISCUSSION: Martin Bergmann noted that in Freud's view the writer offers his audience his own fantasies, making them acceptable by providing some disguise and some pleasure (discharge), analogous to the disguising of latent content by dream work into acceptable manifest content. Pirandello's audience, however, recoiled from the poorly disguised content and was denied the pleasure of discharge by identification with the Characters. Bergmann added that the themes of modern theater and modern art cannot be analyzed as one would analyze a Greek tragedy. In Six Characters, for example, pleasure is taken in the discharge of aggression against traditional art forms.

Dr. Theodore Jacobs commented that Wangh's ingenious demonstration of the connections between the plays was new to Pirandello criticism. He postulated that by the interruption