The current work in psychoanalysis is on the idea of new forms of pathology and new symptoms that challenge the psychoanalytic practice, centered in the concepts of repressing. These symptoms would be representatives of subjectivities processes, which are not organized from the edipian reference, and they would find their justification in the idea of a symbolic authority in decline. In this work, we will investigate, through the notion of helplessness, by what form Freud conceived the authority's interiorization question and the shaping of the subject's moral instance and then ask ourselves in what proportion his posts had already considered the symbolic authority as little consistent and limited in its performance.
symbolic authority; helplessness; super-ego; psychoanalysis