<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Institutions gain power when their categories... > Institutions gain power when their categories become the only language through which a person can imagine themselves. Identity expands when official classification is treated as one map rather than the territory. **Source:** [[livestreams/Reclaiming Identity From Institutional Conditioning — Part 1 - Workbook|Reclaiming Identity From Institutional Conditioning — Part 1]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Institutions gain power when their categories become the only language through which a person can imagine themselves. Identity expands when official classification is treated as one map rather than the territory.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-institutions-gain-power-map-rather-territory ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->