Autoridad y autoritarismo

Is authority in crisis? We hear it in very diverse places and settings: the authority of fathers and mothers in the family; that of teachers in the pedagogical field; that of doctors and therapists in their clinical practice; that of researchers in the field of scientific knowledge; that of hierarchies in religious institutions. And especially that of politicians in the world of politics. In fact, authority has always been in crisis, especially when it has to justify what it authorizes. And, when this weakens, authoritarianism becomes the symptom of a use of power that can no longer respect the singularity of people. In Authority and authoritarianism, Miquel Bassols uses psychoanalysis as a fundamental instrument to examine authority and the social crises with which it is closely related, and poses the questions and some of the keys that serve to find answers to the complex problems that it is inherent in it.