Name: The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children After the Decline of the Father
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Author: Massimo Recalcati
ISBN: 9781509531714

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The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children After the Decline of the Father

Type

Physical Book

Author

Massimo Recalcati

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781509531714

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children After the Decline of the Father "

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.

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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