A civil oration, a lucid account of the collective life of the last twenty years, an intense portrait of the problems of the contemporary world reread in the light of psychoanalysis.
"What world are we passing on as a legacy to the new generations?"
In this book, Massimo Recalcati reveals himself as a lucid and original commentator on our collective life of the last twenty years: the transformations of the family, the discomfort of youth, the irreversible decline of paternal authority, the widespread recourse to violence, scientism as a new form of religion, the hypermodern cult of the healthy body and well-being, the medicalisation of life, the narcissistic screen of social media, isolation and the melancholic urge to die in a world dominated by consumption and the celebration of the image, the economic crisis and the precariousness of work, the trauma of the pandemic and its impact on our existences, the horror of war and the patriarchal repression of the ayatollahs against women are just some of the themes tackled, along with the more directly political ones that concern the psychoanalytical portraits of the major protagonists of national and international politics of the last twenty years such as Berlusconi, Grillo, Renzi, Salvini, Mattarella, Draghi, Trump and Putin. In these pages, Recalcati offers the reader a passionate anthropological portrait of our country and the problems of the contemporary world.
Massimo Recalcati, one of the best-known psychoanalysts in Italy, is the Scientific Director of IRPA (Institute for Applied Psychoanalysis Research). In 2003, he founded the Jonas non-profit organization (Center for Clinical Psychoanalysis for New Symptoms). He writes for "la Repubblica" and teaches the Psychopathology of eating behavior at the University of Pavia and Psychoanalysis and Human Sciences at the University of Verona. He has published numerous books, translated into several languages, including: Portraits of Desire (2012), Jacques Lacan. Desiderio, godimento e soggettivazione (2012), Non è più come prima (2014), L'ora di lezione (2014) and Contro il sacrificio (2017). With Feltrinelli he has published: Il complesso di Telemaco (2013), Le mani della madre (2015), Il mistero delle cose (2016), Il segreto del figlio (2017), A libro aperto (2018), Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull’amore (2019), La tentazione del muro. Lezioni brevi per un lessico civile (2020) and Pasolini. Il fantasma dell’origine (2022).
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