He wrote that when we feel the social order weakening or dissolving, we don’t feel liberated; we feel lost and anxious: If this [binding social order] dissolves, if we no longer feel it in existence and action about and above us, whatever is social in us is deprived of all objective foundation. All that remains is an artificial combination of illusory images, a phantasmagoria vanishing at the least reflection; that is, nothing which can be a goal for our action.[68]
