Books by Massimo Recalcati

An examination of Cain's murderous act through the lens of psychoanalysis: an urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality.

"First published in 2019 with the title Manieni il bacio"--Verso.

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.

"First published in 2017 in Italian under the title Il Secreto [sic] del Figlio."