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Job’s body—and his soul—are riddled with evil. Naked, covered in sores, he falls into the ashes and experiences first-hand the injustice of suffering. His prayer can only take the extreme form of a cry, addressed to God: “Why me?” The punishment that Job suffers...

Massimo Recalcati focuses on comparing and contrasting the story of Oedipus by Sophocles and the parable of the prodigal son. Recalcati argues that common parenting strategies are attempts at sealing the fate of the sons –they ensure that the sons realize the dreams and...

At the heart of this book is our relationship to the traumatic experience of loss. What happens inside us when we lose someone we love deeply? What emptiness opens up? What work awaits us in returning to life? And what happens when this work...

For Recalcati, Jesus...s reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and where...

Far from any simplifying drawing, Recalcati presents the mother in its many facets, through a kaleidoscopic gallery drawn from clinical experience, also from the Bible, books and films. It helps us to recognize the profile of a real mother, not ideal, whose thousand faces...

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....