Sentence:  I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience - most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life , or , for the theologians of course , to the <WSD>influence</WSD> of religion . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc