This collection of short essays explores, through a psychoanalytic perspective, pathologies such as anorexia, addictions, and psychosis, highlighting the central role of the void, which manifests in different but always determining ways. Substance abuse, social masks, everyday madness, deadly narcissism, self-destructive use of the body, and social segregation are all expressions of the void. What emerges is the replacement of the human partner with an inhuman one: food, drugs, obsession for the body image, etc. This kind of substitutions would be meant to guarantee a final remedy for the anguish but leads life toward death instead.
Biografia dell'autore
Massimo Recalcati is a Lacanian psychoanalyst and author. He studied Psychoanalysis in Paris with Jacques-Alain Miller. Among the best-known psychoanalysts in Italy, he is a member of the Italian Lacanian Association of Psychoanalysis, and Director of IRPA (Research Institute of Applied Psychoanalysis).
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Russian: Piter Press
