Have you read "The Unique and Its Property" by Max Stirner by any chance? I think you'd enjoy it. (The title is often translated as "The Ego and Its Own", but t

Have you read "The Unique and Its Property" by Max Stirner by any chance? I think you'd enjoy it. (The title is often translated as "The Ego and Its Own", but that entire translation is really, really bad) It's basically a 19th Century proto-existentialist analysis trying to explain "Why do people sacrifice their free will to abstract ideas, and should they?"