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Massimo Recalcati

The Night in Gethsemane

Cover: The Night in Gethsemane - Massimo Recalcati

Massimo Recalcati

The Night in Gethsemane

2020, pp. 80, e-Book
ISBN: 9781609456337
Translated by: Ann Goldstein
Region: Italy
Book collection: Europa Compass
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The book

As the Gospels tell, after the Last Supper Jesus retreated to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him. The kiss, given to point Jesus out to the guards, has become a powerful symbol of the wrenching experience of betrayal, and abandonment. Betrayed by his disciples—even by Peter, the most faithful—Jesus is forsaken. His sin is to have drawn God closer to man.

In The Night in Gethsemane, Massimo Recalcati, one of Italy’s most highly regarded psychoanalysts, traces the relationship between biblical text and psychoanalytical theory, revealing human life in all its fragility and its agony.


Praise for The Night in Gethsemane

“A brilliant, stirring analysis.”— La Stampa

“A book that reads in less than two hours but stays with you forever.”— Il Foglio

“Lively and sharp…an invitation to look positively at the loneliness of human experience.”— Lettera

The author

Massimo Recalcati
Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst and author who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona. His numerous books have been translated in several languages. He lives and works in Milan.

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