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Author | : Massimo Recalcati |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2019-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1509531742 |
Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be? In addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story of Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey. 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. This 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.
Author | : Massimo Recalcati |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-11-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781509531714 |
Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be? In addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story of Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey. 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. This 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.
Author | : Dorothy Johnson |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Eucharis (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : 0892362367 |
The political and personal influences which dictated the choice of themes in David's art are explored in this book. It provides an analysis of this particular work's iconography.
Author | : Michael Vannoy Adams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2004-03-18 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1135447535 |
The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the transformative impact of images.
Author | : Massimo Recalcati |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509548807 |
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.
Author | : Ilenia Ruggiu |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1040186653 |
By combining legal and genealogical methodologies, this book describes the origin, decline, resurgence and metamorphosis of patriarchy in the West. The book provides the reader with a unified tool for understanding what patriarchy is, its dynamics, and its main features. The reader will find a guide with which to navigate the dozens of definitions and theories of patriarchy, and will better understand why, despite the proclamations of formal Constitutions of the equality of the sexes, the gender gap in the West is still high. Approaching patriarchy both as a concept and as a social fact, the book shows how patriarchy lay at the Jewish-Greek-Roman roots of Western civilization; how for millennia it was perceived as a benevolent function for social and political life and how feminism reversed this benevolent narrative. By reconstructing how patriarchy has been theorized in several disciplines and historical times, the book reflects on what has been done and remains to be done to de-patriarchalize the West. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Constitutional Law, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies and Anthropology.
Author | : Massimo Recalcati |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2021-01-14 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1509542507 |
The 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. In 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.
Author | : Massimo Recalcati |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 150953170X |
In this book the bestselling author and psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati offers a fundamental re-examination of what ‘being a mother’ 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. The 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. Recalcati cuts through conventional wisdom to offer a fresh perspective on the changing nature of motherhood today. An international bestseller, this book will appeal to a wide general readership, as well as to students and scholars of gender studies, psychoanalysis and related disciplines.
Author | : François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780809105557 |
Offers for the first time in English, a translation of Finelon's (Frangois de Salignac de la Mothe-Finelon (1651-1715) major spiritual writing, the Maxims of the Saints and other seminal works of fiction and spiritual direction, such as the famous "Letter to Louis XIV."
Author | : Filipe Delfim Santos |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2017-01-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9463007415 |
"In this book, the author contributes to genre theory, space theory (suggesting allotopia for heterotopia, or describing hypertopia versus hypotopia), the study of authorship, the formation and education novels, and develops such concepts as Leidensgeschichte or the Telemachus complex. Based on Portuguese writer José Régio’s novel A Drop of Blood (1945), he studies the cultural meaning of the immersion paradigm in education and some historical and anthropological features of boarding schools and other institutions of confinement. This book is of interest to those studying the philosophy of education, masculinist nineteenth-century educational theories—in particular about masculine friendships—the place of the Bildungsroman in genre theory, Foucault’s ideas on ‘other spaces’, and the implications of narcissism, melancholia, and nostalgia for the trauma narrative."