The conflict between individual and society, like the conflict between the child and mother, comes from the adult preference for a less suffocating environment, and society, like the mother, must strive to destroy the individual's autonomy and inhibit her maturity if the original relationship is to be maintained.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The conflict between individual and society, like the conflict between the child and mother, comes from the adult preference for a less suffocating environment, and society, like the mother, must strive to destroy the individual's autonomy and inhibit her maturity if the original relationship is to be maintained." in the context of "David Leopold, The Ego and Its Own (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), 1995, p. xxix " to mean that wisdom is timeless.