2024 Programme
Event #26
Sunday 1 September, 05.00 pm
Matteotti square1 - euro 4.50
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Massimo Recalcati
The miracles of desire
Jesus gives sight back to the blind, makes the deaf hear and the paralysed walk, heals lepers, calms the insane, commands the elements of nature, transforms stagnant water into sublime wine, multiplies loaves and fishes, and, most importantly, raises the dead and resurrects himself. How can we understand his power (dynamis) without reducing it to supernatural phenomena? The true miracle he brings to this world is the strength of desire: it's not about the length of one's life, but how it can expand its horizons, how it is able to be generative, fruitful and grateful, and how it can become eternal – a life untainted by death.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/Massimo Recalcati,is a member of Società Milanese di Psicoanalisi (Psychoanalytical Society of Milan). He is the founder of Jonas - Centre of Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice for New Symptoms, and the scientific director of a postgraduate school in psychotherapy at IRPA (Research Institute of Applied Psychoanalysis) in Milan. He teaches at the University of Verona and at IULM University of Milan. Since 2003, he has been director and lecturer of the postgraduate school in New Symptoms Clinic at the Jonas Onlus centre in Milan. He is currently a supervisor at the Gruber Centre in Bologna for serious cases of eating disorders. He contributes to the cultural sections of la Repubblica and La Stampa. Since 2014, he has directed the Eredi series for Feltrinelli. Since 2020, he has collaborated with Maurizio Balsamo and co-edited the journal “Frontiere della psicoanalisi”, published by Il Mulino. His numerous publications are translated into several languages. His latest book, “La legge del desiderio”, will be released in August.
ph. credits: Settimio Benedusi
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Minotauro Institute, with Loredana Cirillo and Filippo Rosa
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