{"title":"Massimo Recalcati","description":"\u003cp\u003eMassimo Recalcati invites readers into profound explorations of desire, identity, and the intimate dynamics within family and society. His works, blending philosophy and psychoanalysis, delve into the emotional currents that shape human experience, from the complexities of maternal inheritance to the secret struggles of fatherhood and youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with themes of forgiveness, longing, and personal transformation, Recalcati’s writing offers thoughtful reflections on contemporary life. Readers can expect compelling insights into the intersecting realms of psychology, education, and cultural critique, presented with clarity and intellectual depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-praise-of-forgiveness-by-massimo-recalcati-9781509534906","title":"In Praise of Forgiveness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelationships fall apart, marriages fail, couples break up – it happens to us all. Time corrodes passion, and the routines of daily life stifle the excitement that initially 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 confined for too long within the restrictive bounds of the same bond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShould 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Forgiveness\u003c\/em\u003e by Massimo Recalcati challenges us to think deeply about these questions and consider the role of forgiveness in maintaining the bonds of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000647991532,"sku":"9781509534906","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12371313482725.jpg?v=1763293400"},{"product_id":"the-enduring-kiss-by-massimo-recalcati-9781509542499","title":"The Enduring Kiss","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000778211564,"sku":"9781509542499","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12447243482725.jpg?v=1763303913"},{"product_id":"the-enduring-kiss-by-massimo-recalcati-9781509542482","title":"The Enduring Kiss","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. The extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one’s beloved announces the demise of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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, each lesson is as mysterious and miraculous as the first encounter itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000778244332,"sku":"9781509542482","price":95.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12447073482725.jpg?v=1763303914"},{"product_id":"the-mothers-hands-desire-fantasy-and-the-inheritance-of-the-maternal-by-massimo-recalcati-9781509531684","title":"The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the bestselling author and psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati offers a fundamental re-examination of what \u003cem\u003ebeing a mother\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecalcati cuts through conventional wisdom to offer a fresh perspective on the changing nature of motherhood today. 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What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story of Telemachus in Homer’s \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000820351212,"sku":"9781509531721","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12339463482725.jpg?v=1763307257"},{"product_id":"the-temptation-of-the-wall-by-massimo-recalcati-9781509548798","title":"The Temptation of the Wall","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern social and political life is characterised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his experience as a psychoanalyst, Recalcati shows that the temptation of the wall is rooted in a deep psychological inclination: human beings have always drawn up borders and rejected the risks associated with being open to the outside world. But when these borders are turned into walls, they can only result in an impoverishment of the value of exchange and the loss of the dynamic plurality of a life shared with others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Temptation of the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e explores these complex themes, offering insightful analysis and timely reflections on the human condition and the societal trends that shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363175481580,"sku":"9781509548798","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12510233482725.jpg?v=1772917901"},{"product_id":"the-sons-secret-by-massimo-recalcati-9781509531769","title":"The Son's Secret","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 realise the dreams and fantasies of the parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut all that sons want – and this is their secret because they generally do not want, or are unable, to confront their parents directly – is to be recognised as unique, as different, as independent, free-thinking individuals who are able to chart their own path in life, rather than extensions of their parents' fantasies. 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