nee. echt nicht.

Bist du dazu in der Lage? Wenn nicht - übersetz den Satz erstmal ins Deutsche und dann sehen wir weiter.

I think I get the sense of the sentence, especially because Adorno repeats himself; unfortunately this is the only compact statement I can find. This is my simplified version:

They [Schlager] provide dependent workers with surrogates for emotions that their sense of Zeitgeist/fashion tells them they should have...

So perhaps something like "timely revised self-ideal" would work??? It sounds so awkward...