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The author states that 'the cognitive matrix' of the child entering adolescence 'is largely structured by … the implicit family ideology'. Adolescence, bringing new capacities for cognition and a larger social environment, presents a creative task: to restructure and comprehend experience, and develop patterns of 'intimacy and effort'. Anxiety results from 'confrontation with chaos' and is alleviated by regression to dependency on the family or on an alternate ideology.