Abstract
The notion that law is definable as the “command of a sovereign” is clearly unsound. Yet even so, it remains a popular view of the law. This paradox is examined here in the light of psychoanalytic theories and discoveries concerning man's primordial and individual history. An attempt is made to show that the fallacious belief that law is the “command of a sovereign” reflects the influence of this history.
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