Greed and Psyche

It seems difficult to deny that Greed is a significant factor in the de-humanization of workers under Capitalism. Now, according to Aristotle, Greed is not only a Moral vice, but a Psychological disorder, as well.  For, not only does it consist in taking more than one's share, it is constituted by a disruption of Psychic harmony--an Intemperance of one drive, that can be harmful to other vital functions, e. g. overeating that disrupts sleep.  Thus, the Psychoanalysis of Greed requires the recognition of a multiplicity of organic processes.  But, Marcuse, following Freud, recognizes only one Vital principle--Eros.  So, not only does he lack the conceptual resources to recognize, diagnose, and remedy one of the fundamental discontents of civilization, that Psychic reduction might itself be interpreted as an expression of Intemperance, i. e. of a Self-Indulgence, which is intemperate even if the product of a liberation from its opposite, Abstinence.