Cain’s Act

An examination of Cain's murderous act through the lens of psychoanalysis: an urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality.

About the author

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. His latest book to appear in English was The Night in Gethsemane (Europa, 2020). He lives and works in Milan.

Will Schutt is the author of Westerly (the Yale Series of Younger Poets) and translator, most recently, of Carlo and Renzo Piano’s Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty (Europa, 2020), Andrea Marcolongo’s The Ingenious Language (Europa, 2019) and Starting from Scratch (Europa, 2022), and My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti.

Summary

An examination of Cain's murderous act through the lens of psychoanalysis: an urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality.

Product details

• Authors: Massimo Recalcati
• Assisted by: Will Schutt (Translation)
• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781787703971
• ISBN: 978-1-78770-397-1
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Prose: non-fiction, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Biography and non-fiction prose, PSYCHOLOGY / Essays