Authority is linked to responsibility, which means knowing how to answer, both for oneself and for the world. This is also how it is linked to the power of speech. Demonstrating authority necessarily means knowing how to answer for one's actions. However, when everyone in the organization disclaims responsibility, they are no longer the author of their actions and take refuge in the anonymity of the crowd ("it's not me, it's everyone").

The psychic development of the human being, to reach maturity, is a long journey, which takes place from the earliest childhood, until psychic autonomy, understood as the ability to set one's own laws, without needing to be contained from the outside. Education has the role of leading the child out of the impulsive state. Authority is therefore central in the psychic construction of the child.

The fanaticization of adolescents and young adults raises the question of what, in the psychic processes at work at the heart of our Western societies, incites them to this. Adolescence is a key initiatory moment, the one where the individual learns autonomy, that is to say the capacity to internalize universal moral laws within himself to make them his own, in order to free himself from the grip of his impulses. It is important to clarify that these moral laws are not relati

Actuellement et plus que jamais, les notions d’autorité et de pouvoir se confondent. Or, l’autorité n’est que ce qui légitime le pouvoir...