Massimo Recalcati addresses the theme of School and the practice of teaching in a book that stands as a tribute to the figure of the teacher. Every true teacher is both a light and a wave: a light, because they expand the horizon of our world, guiding us toward the necessary subjectivation of knowledge; a wave, because they embody the impact of the student’s encounter with something that resists – and it is precisely this resistance that compels the student to find their own personal style, so that what has been academically acquired can be reappropriated in a singular way and reinvented.
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Massimo Recalcati, one of the most well-known psychoanalysts in Italy, is the director of IRPA (Istituto di ricerca di psicoanalisi applicata) and, in 2003, founded Jonas Onlus (Centro di clinica psicoanalitica per i nuovi sintomi). He is a regular contributor to the newspaper la Repubblica and currently teaches at IULM University in Milan. Together with Maurizio Balsamo, he co-directs the journal Frontiere della psicoanalisi. He is the author of numerous books, translated into several languages, including L’uomo senza inconscio (Raffaello Cortina Editore), Il complesso di Telemaco (Feltrinelli), and a two-volume monograph on Jacques Lacan (Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2012 and 2016).
Among his publications with Einaudi are: L’ora di lezione (2014), I tabù del mondo (2017 and 2018), La notte del Getsemani (2019 and 2020), Il gesto di Caino (2020 and 2021), Ritorno a Jean-Paul Sartre. Esistenza, infanzia e desiderio (2021), Il grido di Giobbe (2021 and 2022), La legge della parola. Radici bibliche della psicoanalisi (2022 and 2023), his first play Amen (2022), La Legge del desiderio. Radici bibliche della psicoanalisi (2024 and 2025), and La luce e l’onda. Cosa significa insegnare? (2025).