Name: In Praise of Forgiveness
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Author: Massimo Recalcati

Type

Physical Book

Author

Massimo Recalcati

Publisher

Polity Pr

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781509534890

Edition No.

Synopsis "In Praise of Forgiveness "

Relationships fall apart, marriages fail, couples break up – it happens to us all. Time corrodes passion and the routines of daily life kill the excitement that 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 closed for too long in the restrictive chamber of the same bond. And 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? Should 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?

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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