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down barriers, dependency—in short, a cognitive style marked as
field-dependent, which the ego, on the way to autonomy, first
overcame and replaced with a field-7adependent style of percep-
tion and thought. Autonomy that robs the ego of a communica-
tive access to its own inner nature also signals unfreedom. Ego
identity means a freedom that limits itself in the intention of
reconciling—if not of identifying—worthiness with happiness.
