Massimo Recalcati is an Italian Lacanian psychoanalyst, essayist and writer. He is a member of the Milanese Society of Psychoanalysis (smp), a founder of Jonas – Centre of Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice for New Symptoms, and the Scientific Director of the IRPA School of Specialisation in Psychotherapy in Milan. He works as a lecturer at the University of Verona and at IULM in Milan. Since 2003, he has been working as the director and a lecturer in charge of the specialisation course at the Milan headquarters of Jonas, the non-profit organization he founded in 2003. He is currently a clinical supervisor for eating disorders at the Gruber Centre in Bologna. Since 2014, he has been the editor of the Eredi series for Feltrinelli. Since 2020, he has held the position of a co-director of the magazine Frontiere della psicoanalisi.
His scientific activity revolves around some fundamental topics: the analysis of contemporary psychopathology and eating disorders; the study of the teaching of Jacques Lacan; the reflection on the father figure in the hypermodern era; the analysis of the relationship between politics and the discomfort of contemporary civilization, between psychoanalysis and artistic creation. Since 2016, he has been the scientific director of “Kum!Festival – Care, Educate, Governa” in Ancona. Since 2018, he has been the scientific director of the Turin Festival of Psychology. He lives and works in Milan.
He has published numerous books, which have also been translated into several languages, including: Portraits of Desire (2012), The Enduring Kiss: Seven Short Lessons on Love (2021), The night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal (2020), The law of the word. Biblical roots of psychoanalysis (2022), Cain’s Act (2022), The Son’s Secret: From Oedipus to the Prodigal Son (2020), The Temptation of the Wall: Five Short Lessons on Civil Life (2022), In Praise of Forgiveness (2020), The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children after the Decline of the Father (2019) etc.
