Massimo Recalcati

Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull'amore

Umberto Eco

Maurizio Ferraris

Akeel Bilgrami

Hilary Putnam

John R. Searle

Mario De Caro

Carol Rovane

Diego Marconi

Michele Di Francesco

«In particolare, il nuovo realismo dice che la decostruzione e la critica non sono affatto equilibrismi da funamboli. In filosofia occorre saper riconoscere che cosa è culturalmente e socialmente costruito e cosa non lo è, oltre a tutte le infinite posizioni intermedie. Il vero lavoro del filosofo incomincia da qui, le tessere, siano esse quelle dell'antirealismo o del realismo, da sole non bastano, e ci auguriamo che questo volume testimoni non solo di un desiderio politico-culturale, ma anche di un lavoro». Bentornata realtà. Il nuovo realismo in discussione (a cura di Mario De Caro e Maurizio Ferraris) *** La questione filosofica oggi piú dibattuta negli interventi di dieci protagonisti.

Bentornata realtà

Carlos Gumpert

Ya no es como antes. Elogio del perdón en la vida amorosa

Las Manos de la Madre. Deseo, Fantasmas y Herencia de lo Materno

anoressia e bulimia

L'ultima cena

L'ora di lezione. Per un'erotica dell'insegnamento

Dopo le fortunatissime analisi della figura del padre e della madre nella civiltà contemporanea, con questo libro Massimo Recalcati completa un’ideale trilogia concentrando il suo sguardo sulla figura del figlio. Un figlio è un’esistenza unica, distinta e irriducibile a quella dei suoi genitori. Contro ogni autoritarismo e contro una pedagogia falsamente libertaria che vorrebbe annullare la differenza simbolica tra le generazioni, Recalcati afferma il diritto del figlio a custodire il segreto della sua vita e del suo desiderio.

Da Edipo al figlio ritrovato

Il segreto del figlio

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 Odyssey. The Telemachus complex is the reverse of the Oedipus complex. Recalcati argues that children are possessed not just with a desire to annihilate their father, as their key rival in the contest to win the mother’s love, but also with a longing for a father-figure, as someone who brings meaning, structure and order to their lives and who imbues them with a sense of the future. This fresh and insightful account of the changing relations between parents and children in the era of the decline of the father will be of great interest to a wide general readership.

Parents and Children after the Decline of the Father

The Telemachus Complex

Elogio dell'inconscio. Dodici argomenti in difesa della psicoanalisi

La notte del Getsemani

As the Gospels tell us, after the Last Supper Jesus retreats to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him. The kiss, given to point Jesus out to the guards, has become a powerful symbol of the wrenching experience of betrayal, and abandonment. Betrayed by his disciples, even by Peter, the most faithful of them all, Jesus is forsaken. His sin, to have drawn God closer to man. In The Night in Gethsemane, Massimo Recalcati, one of Italy's highest regarded psychoanalysts, traces the relationship between biblical text and psychoanalytical theory, revealing human life in all its fragility and its agony.

The Night in Gethsemane

Seconda edizione. Nel tempo dell’evaporazione del padre e dello smembramento della famiglia tradizionale, cosa può avere una funzione di guida per il soggetto? Cosa resta del padre al di là del suo Ideale? Cosa rende possibile, nell’epoca del tramonto dell’Edipo, una trasmissione efficace del desiderio? Cosa significa “ereditare” la facoltà di desiderare? Come il desiderio e la Legge possono ancora accordarsi? Attraverso Sigmund Freud e Jacques Lacan e alcune figure tratte dalla letteratura (Philip Roth e Cormac McCarthy) e dal cinema (Clint Eastwood), si delineano i tratti di una paternità indebolita, ma comunque vitale, priva di ogni aura teologica e fondata sul valore etico della testimonianza singolare. Con una nuova prefazione dell’autore.

La paternità nell'epoca ipermoderna

Cosa resta del padre?

Introduzione alla psicoanalisi contemporanea. I problemi del dopo Freud

Il grido di Giobbe

An urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality. “Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questions—for Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?”—La Stampa What lies at the foundation of human history and life in a society? According to Massimo Recalcati, it is not the sentiment of love for one’s neighbour preached by Jesus in the Gospels but the brutal hatred and violence depicted in the story of Cain and Abel. As timely as it is brilliant, this essay examines Cain’s murderous act through the lens of psychoanalysis, showing how delusions of self-sufficiency and individual perfection lie at the deepest roots of fear and violence in our societies. True completeness can only be achieved through others—not despite them. This, argues Recalcati, is the lesson of Cain, one that resonates powerfully in our time. Praise for Recalcati’s A Night in Gethsemane: “A book that reads in less than two hours but stays with you forever.”—Il Foglio “Lively and sharp . . . An invitation to look positively at the loneliness of human experience.”—Lettera

Cain’s Act

A libro aperto. Una vita è i suoi libri

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 relationship, observing that mothers may even resent their children as a result of unresolved conflicts between different dimensions of love. The mother’s hands not only nurture but can also potentially harm. Recalcati argues that it is precisely in these competing demands that motherhood fulfils its function: only if the mother is ‘not-all-mother’ can a child experience the absence that enables it to access the symbolic and cultural world. Recalcati cuts through conventional wisdom to offer a fresh perspective on the changing nature of motherhood today. An international bestseller, this book will appeal to a wide general readership, as well as to students and scholars of gender studies, psychoanalysis and related disciplines.

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

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, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one’s beloved announces the demise of love. In this short book, Massimo Recalcati – one of Italy’s leading intellectuals and bestselling authors – offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the first encounter itself.

Seven Short Lessons on Love

The Enduring Kiss

Questo libro si interessa dell’amore che dura, delle sue pene e della sua possibile redenzione. Non si occupa degli innamoramenti che si esauriscono nel tempo di una notte senza lasciare tracce. Indaga gli amori che lasciano il segno, che non vogliono morire nemmeno di fronte all’esperienza traumatica del tradimento e dell’abbandono. Cosa accade in questi legami quando uno dei due vive un’altra esperienza affettiva nel segreto e nello spergiuro? Cosa accade poi se chi tradisce chiede perdono e, dopo aver decretato che non era più come prima, vuole che tutto torni come prima? Dobbiamo ridicolizzare gli amanti nel loro sforzo di far durare l’amore? Oppure possiamo confrontarci con l’esperienza del tradimento, con l’offesa subita, con il dolore inflitto da chi per noi è sempre stato una ragione di vita? Questo libro elogia il perdono come lavoro lento e faticoso che non rinuncia alla promessa di eternità che accompagna ogni amore vero.

Elogio del perdono nella vita amorosa

Non è più come prima

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 destined to die if its object is not constantly renewed, if we do not change partner, if it is closed for too long in the restrictive chamber of the same bond. And yet what happens to these bonds when one of the two partners betrays the other, when the promise fails, when there is another emotional experience cloaked in secrecy and deceit? What happens if the traitor then begs forgiveness? Are they asking to be loved again and, having declared that it is not like it used to be, now want everything to go back to how it was? Should we make fun of lovers in their attempts to make love last? Or should we try to face up to the experience of betrayal, with the offence caused by the person we love most? Should we not perhaps attempt to praise forgiveness in love?

Massimo Recalcati

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