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“massimo recalcati”

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  • Cain's Act

    The Origins of Hate

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    From one of Italy's most renowned philosophers and psychoanalysts, an urgent and stirring reflection on violence, morality, and our relationship with the OtherWhat lies at the foundation of human history and society? According to Massimo Recalcati, it is not love for one's neighbor, as preached by Jesus in the Gospels, but the brutality, jealousy, and violence depicted in the story of Cain and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Night in Gethsemane

    On Solitude and Betrayal

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    The highly regarded Italian philosopher and psychoanalyst offers "a brilliant, stirring analysis" on suffering, doubt, and the potential for renewal ( La Stampa, IT).For Massimo Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Telemachus Complex

    Parents and Children after the Decline of the Father

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    Translated by Alice Kilgarriff ...
    Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be?In addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story of Telemachus in Homer’s ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Temptation of the Wall

    Five Short Lessons on Civil Life

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    Translated by Alice Kilgarriff ...
    Modern social and political life is characterized not only by a passion for freedom and a desire for human contact, but also by the urge to shut down, to refuse freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, to barter it away in return for our security: this is the temptation of the wall, a temptation with which every modern society has to come to terms.Drawing on his experience as a ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • The Son's Secret

    From Oedipus to the Prodigal Son

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    Translated by Alice Kilgarriff ...
    This new book by Massimo Recalcati focuses on the psycho-social life of the son. Comparing and contrasting the tragic story of Oedipus by Sophocles and the parable of the prodigal son, Recalcati argues that all common parenting strategies, whether authoritarian or democratic, are attempts at sealing the fate of sons – that is, they are designed to ensure that sons realize the dreams and fantasies ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • In Praise of Forgiveness

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    Translated by Alice Kilgarriff ...
    Relationships fall apart, marriages fail, couples break up – it happens to us all. Time corrodes passion and the routines of daily life kill the excitement that surrounds the emotion of the first encounter. The difficulty of uniting sexual pleasure with love, which Freud considered to be the most common neurosis in any love life, has become emblematic of a truth that seems undeniable: desire is ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Enduring Kiss

    Seven Short Lessons on Love

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    Translated by Alice Kilgarriff ...
    The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal

    by Massimo Recalcati ...
    Translated by Alice Kilgarriff ...
    In this book the bestselling author and psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati offers a fundamental re-examination of what ‘being a mother’ means today, in a world where new social and sexual freedoms mean that motherhood is no longer the sole destiny of women. Questioning the belief that a mother’s love is natural and unconditional, he paints a more complex and troubling picture of the mother–child ... Read more

    $18.00 USD