Escape From Freedom by Eric Fromm is an oldie but a goodie classic philosophical book about modern man freeing himself from the bonds of society--any society. Man, in breaking away from his social structure, encounters isolation, and he is confronted with a decision to either escape from the burden of his freedom into new dependencies and submission, or to advance to the full realization of positive freedom which is based on the uniqueness and individuality of man.

In Chapter 7, Fromm speaks of "Spontaneous Activity" as being the one way in which man can overcome the feeling of aloneness without sacrificing the integrity of his self.

In the spontaneous realization of the self, man unites himself anew with the world - with man, nature and himself. Love is the foremost component of such spontaneity; not love as the dissolution of the self in another person, not love as the possession of another person, but love as spontaneous affirmation of others, as the union of the individual with others on the basis of the preservation of the individual self.

--Nancy Moore

(Now, we liberated girls know that when Eric Fromm speaks of "Man" he means us also. After all, he wrote the book in 1941!)