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本節還要再說明一點：不應認為一個人有足夠的自由僅僅因為他說他有足夠的自由。自由部分受到人們無意識的心理控制所約束， 此外，許多人對於什麼構成了自由的概念更多地受制於社會常規，而非他們真實的需要。 舉例來說，許多過度社會化的左派可能會說包括他們自己在內的大多數人社會化太少而不是太多，但過度社會化的左派為他的高度社會化付出了沉重的心理代價。

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One more point to be made in this section: It should not be assumed that a person has enough freedom just because he SAYS he has enough. Freedom is restricted in part by psychological controls of which people are unconscious, and moreover many people’s ideas of what constitutes freedom are governed more by social convention than by their real needs. For example, it’s likely that many leftists of the oversocialized type would say that most people, including themselves, are socialized too little rather than too much, yet the oversocialized leftist pays a heavy psychological price for his high level of socialization.