 Rahel Jaeggi offers an account of alienation of this kind, and situates it explicitly in the tradition of Critical Theory – the kind of emancipatory theory associated with the Frankfurt School. On this account, the idea of alienation has the potential to help us understand and change the world, but only if it receives some significant conceptual reconstruction. Alienation is still associated with the frustration of freedom, with disruptions to something like ‘self-realisation’. However, this account—unlike its forerunners and associates—is said not to be fatally compromised by a commitment to either ‘strongly objectivistic’ theories of the good life or ‘essentialist’ conceptions of the self (Jaeggi 2014: 40).