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Authority (n.) over ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a patient only demonstrates the doctor's lack of criticism: I can assert of another only what I find in myself, so I either do violence to him or succumb to him.

Authority (n.) worn ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠by the doctor as a smoke-screen against his patient only denies him a vital organ of information — the patient influences him unconsciously all the same.

Authority (n.) escaped ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from — of Church and kings — has left millions helpless victims of any power that cares to assume it.

Authority (n.) worn ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as a mask by the analyst teaches the patient only subterfuge: how can he drop his own when he sees the doctor playing hide-and-seek with his personality?

Authority (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠believes it may behave as it likes, leaving the child to adapt, secretly holds that the only real moral restraint is the policeman behind the penal code.

Authority (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠give a patient what he has not gained himself; what he takes over from it he will not believe for long and it keeps him infantile, so analysis only clears stones from the path of his own development.

Authority (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the only possible proof of a metaphysical truth, so such claims always demand strong recognition and inevitably beg the question, as the proofs of God show.

Authority (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an analyst will not risk he is sure to lose; to keep his prestige he may hide in a doctrine, but life cannot be mastered with theories.