Family psychology – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:01:14 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png Family psychology – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 The Telemachus Complex : Parents and Children after the Decline of the Father https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/telemachus-complex-parents-and-children-after-the-decline-of-the-father-9781509531721/ Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:13:24 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=19025 Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be? In addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story of Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey.

The Telemachus complex is the reverse of the Oedipus complex. Recalcati argues that children are possessed not just with a desire to annihilate their father, as their key rival in the contest to win the mother’s love, but also with a longing for a father-figure, as someone who brings meaning, structure and order to their lives and who imbues them with a sense of the future. This fresh and insightful account of the changing relations between parents and children in the era of the decline of the father will be of great interest to a wide general readership.

]]> The Mother’s Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/mothers-hands-desire-fantasy-and-the-inheritance-of-the-maternal-9781509531684/ Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:08:43 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=19023 In this book the bestselling author and psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati offers a fundamental re-examination of what ‘being a mother’ means today, in a world where new social and sexual freedoms mean that motherhood is no longer the sole destiny of women. Questioning the belief that a mother’s love is natural and unconditional, he paints a more complex and troubling picture of the mother-child relationship, observing that mothers may even resent their children as a result of unresolved conflicts between different dimensions of love. The mother’s hands not only nurture but can also potentially harm.

Recalcati argues that it is precisely in these competing demands that motherhood fulfils its function: only if the mother is ‘not-all-mother’ can a child experience the absence that enables it to access the symbolic and cultural world. Recalcati cuts through conventional wisdom to offer a fresh perspective on the changing nature of motherhood today. An international bestseller, this book will appeal to a wide general readership, as well as to students and scholars of gender studies, psychoanalysis and related disciplines.

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