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