The play, of course, is scripted; the psychoanalyst shows the patient how he uses his script to defend himself against his madness. The psychoanalysis, at least by intention, is therapeutic if not actually curative; the theatrical performance does not circumscribe its aims. In one of these social forms the listener is paid, and in the other he pays. What the theatre world and the profession of psychoanalysis both believe is that the mad are worth listening to; indeed, may be among the people who are most worth listening to. Or, to put it slightly differently, the mad parts of ourselves may be
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