Norm's conclusion from all this. We put together Schafer's version of suspension of disbelief and Norm's version of internalized defense mechanisms, and we begin to get an account of the shared and the individual in litry response. We pcve a fundamental difference between animate and inanimate objects. Paper Norm is currently working on. Our relation to lit is thus in between our relation to animate and inanimate objects.
Critic has analytic relation to an object out there.
Layperson has an interpersonal relation to the work, in which self-other is blurred. Imagine situation in play or movie, where you are part of an audience. You can be identified with a character and you can be taking in defense mechanisms from others in the audience. You can be absorbed into the book, but not to anyone else. All three build on shared understandings and categories.