Freedom from traditional authority leaves modern individuals isolated and ripe for new submission.

Evidence

It has been the thesis of this book that freedom has a twofold meaning for modern man: that he has been freed from traditional authorities and has become an `individual’, but that at the same time he has become isolated, powerless, and an instrument of purposes outside himself, alienated from himself and others; furthermore, that this state undermines his self, weakens and frightens him, and makes him ready for submission to new kinds of bondage . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 294

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the Institute’s earlier Studies on Authority and the Family social-psychological functionalism.