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

ISBN-13: 9781509531721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Massimo Recalcati

Recenzje

'With his customary blend of wisdom, acumen and wit, Recalcati travels deep into the world of Odysseus to re-tell the story of Telemachus for our times. This book shows the Italian master at his thought-provoking best. All fathers shall prescribe it to their children!'Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Brunel University London

Spis treści

Introduction1. The Law of the Word and the New HellPraying Is No Longer Like Breathing; Aphonia and the Father's Amnesia; The Hell of Salò; The Law of the Word; How Do We Transmit the Word of the Law?; We are A Scream in the Night; Escape From Freedom; The Fantasy of Freedom As a Hypermodern Fantasy; Mass Freedom; Dying to Work2. The Confusion Between GenerationsThe Parents' Task; The Law and the laws; Adulterations; Transgression, or an Appeal to the Law?; A New Discontent of Youth; The Trauma of the Non-Existence of the Sexual Relationship; Femicidal Violence; The Technological Object and Depression in Youth; Evaporation and Invention3. From Oedipus to TelemachusFour Types of Child; The Child-as-Oedipus; The Anti-Oedipal Child; The Child-as-Narcissus; The Child-as-Telemachus4. What Does It Mean To Be A Rightful Heir?Inheritance as Reclamation; An Excess of Memory; The Anti-Melancholy of Jesus and Nietzsche; The Negation of Symbolic Debt; Telemachus Is The Rightful Heir; What Does Inheritance Mean?; The Recognition of the Symbolic Debt; The Symbolic Difference Between Generations; Act, Faith and PromiseEpilogue: Reading Pain on the LeavesIndex of Names

O autorze

Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona.