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The Imperative (n.) 'Thou ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠shalt' gets its harshness from sublimation: once love for the father is desexualized, it can no longer bind the destructiveness mixed with it, and the freed cruelty lands in the ideal.