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     When members of a community share a dread fear of any
member  engaging  in  certain  proscribed  decisions   and
actions   they  will  through  their  emotional  responses
perpetuate  that dread and so maintain a taboo which  will
constrain  children.   The  decisions and actions  are  so
dreaded  that  it is not possible to consider them  in  an
adult  manner  so as to be free to  pass  value  judgments
regarding  how helpful they might be,  or not  be.    Even
imagination  and  fantasy are restricted with  respect  to
considering  such decisions and actions.  Such taboos  may
also   receive  sustenance  through  myths,    traditions,
rituals,   laws,  and banishments.   The power of a  taboo
declines,   however,   as  it  uses the  latter  forms  of
sustenance in an explicit struggle to survive.

     Each  profession has its cherished  self-image  along
with its myths,  traditions,  rituals, laws,  and forms of
banishment.   There is a tendency for professions to  form
collusions  which put the nature of the profession  beyond
analysis.  New questions which seek to put a  self-serving
profession  into  a broader perspective may be recited  in
subtle ways, but rarely in overt ways. An overt resistance
to analysis of the profession is especially unlikely in an
analytic  profession.   For this reason covert and  subtle
resistance to analysis is all the more likely, and so need
to  be  anticipated  by  those  within  and  with-out  the
profession. Extensive data collection about the profession
may  serve to make it appear that there are efforts to put
it into perspective.  Yet.  so long as  those analyses are
made only by those with (or beholden to those within)  the
profession,  they are devoid of real power.  Those who are
participants in a taboo may not have the power to  cast it
off,   even  after  it has ceased   to  serve  any  useful
purpose.

     All  professions  which  profess to  exist  to  serve
others need from  time to time to ask the  others (outside
the profession) to make a study of the extent to which the
profession  is  being faithful to its calling.    All  too
often,  due to human finitude, there is a slippery descent
into the mutual admiration and advancement society process
with   little   awareness  of  relationships  to   others.
Intelligence and sophistication are inadequate protections
against  these  dangers.   Participation  in  institutions
which  have  nor been fragmented and  dialogue  with  real
persons  who have not been fragmented are ways of avoiding
entrapment in such a pit with neither mutual awareness nor
mutual understanding of what is happening.

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