Beyond the Reality Principle: Marcuse, Freud and the End of civilization by Dr Rod Tweedy "Intensified progress seems to be bound up with intensified unfreedom" notes Marcuse in his remarkable book Eros and civilization, one of the most profound and compelling books ever written on the problem of “civilization”. The work tries to explain and unravel this apparent paradox - it's both a brilliant development of Freud's ideas on civilization and a revolutionary challenge to them. He starts by noting the essential, perplexing, double-bind of late capitalizm - the more we have of it, the more entrapped we feel: [...]