Biography

Massimo Recalcati, psychoanalyst, directs IRPA (Institute for Applied Psychoanalysis Research) and in 2003 founded Jonas Onlus (Center for Psychoanalytic Clinic for New Symptoms). He collaborates with the newspaper la Repubblica and currently teaches at IULM in Milan, in addition to having taught at the Universities of Urbino, Lausanne, Bergamo, Pavia, and Verona. He co-directs the journal Frontiers of Psychoanalysis with Maurizio Balsamo. He is the author of numerous books, translated into various languages, including The Man Without Unconscious (Raffaello Cortina, 2010), The Telemachus Complex (Feltrinelli, 2013), and a two-volume monograph on Jacques Lacan (Raffaello Cortina, 2012 and 2016). Among his publications for Einaudi: The Lesson Hour (2014), Return to Jean-Paul Sartre. Existence, Childhood and Desire (2021), The Law of the Word. Biblical Roots of Psychoanalysis (2022 and 2023), and his first theatrical text, Amen (2022).