The sovereign is called the father of his country (Landesvater), and the
father is the first and oldest, and for the child the only authority,
from whose absolutism the other social authorities have evolved in the
course of the history of human civilization (in so far as mother-right
does not necessitate a qualification of this doctrine).
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This quote from The Interpretation of Dreams skillfully links the "sovereign-fatherland" and "father-child" authority relations, revealing Freud’s typical approach of connecting individual psychological dynamics to broader social and historical structures. Its concise logic lays a clear foundation for exploring the origin of social authority from a psychological perspective, though it carries the era’s limitation of downplaying mother-right’s impact.