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Authority is not a psychoanalytical concept but it is a primordial notion clinically, insofar as it is directly attached to the make-up of the bonding triangle. Situations of ill-treatment, educational shortcomings, negligence, quite often include a certain number of ingredients for basic violence to erupt. When bonding flexibility, well-tempered connections and disconnections, is   missing, any attempt at distancing, differentiation, is immediately seen as a threat. This is why the intervention of a third person is so difficult to accept, insofar as he can be seen as a threat. This article makes clear the clinical specificity of situations of educational negligence as well as the problems of authority arising from them. Then some sequences of a therapeutic group working on a story are evoked, in which the game “spinning a yarn” enables the space hitherto in meltdown to be reengaged. Drawing on mediation can be envisaged in its double dimension, both metaphorical and concrete, enabling the child to experience this restoration based on active mobilisation.