what is bad is whatever causes one to be threatened withloss of love. For fear of that loss, one must avoid it. This, too, is the reason why itmakes little difference whether one has already done the bad thing or onlyintends to do it. In either case the danger only sets in if and when the authoritydiscovers it, and in either case the authority would behave in the same way.
-Freud
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