Name: The Temptation of the Wall: Five Short Lessons on Civil Life
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Author: Massimo Recalcati
ISBN: 9781509548798

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The Temptation of the Wall: Five Short Lessons on Civil Life

Type

Physical Book

Author

Massimo Recalcati

Translated by

Alice Kilgarriff

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.1 x 12.4 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781509548798

Synopsis "The Temptation of the Wall: Five Short Lessons on Civil Life"

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 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.

Massimo Recalcati

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Massimo Recalcati (1959) is a prominent psychoanalyst, director of the Institute for Research in Applied Psychoanalysis and regular contributor to La Repubblica; he is also one of the most prestigious and widely read essayists in his country. He teaches, at the University of Pavia, psychopathology of eating behavior, a topic on which he has written several reference books. At Anagrama, he has published The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children after the Decline of the Progenitor, It's Not Like Before: Praise of Forgiveness in Love Life, The Hour of the Class: For an Erotics of Teaching, The Hands of the Mother: Desire, Phantoms and Legacy of the Maternal, The Secret of the Son: From Oedipus to the Recovered Son, The Taboos of the World: Figures and Myths of the Sense of Limit and its Violation, Hold the Kiss: Brief Lessons on Love, The Night of Gethsemane, and The Light of Dead Stars: Essay on Mourning and Nostalgia.

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