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The social climate in which analysis is accepted and can flourish is nonauthoritarian; in it there is both religious and political freedom of thought. Even in the United States where psychoanalysis has taken firmest root, it is still subject to organized medicine. The main teaching of psychoanalysis is tolerance for and liberty for the sexual instincts, and it seeks to adjust man to the reality of death. The social environment must provide an atmosphere of acceptance of these teachings.