What are Law and Desire in Western tradition and in our everyday lives? There is a sanctioning and moralistic interpretation of the Law, that of the temple priests who enraged Jesus. And there is another, which helps us cultivate our Desire, understood as a vocation, as a talent. This is the heart of Massimo Recalcati's latest essay, "The Law of Desire: Biblical Roots of Psychoanalysis" (Einaudi). While churches are emptying and there is a vocations crisis, Italy's most famous psychoanalyst rediscovers in the words of Jesus the teaching that reaches all the way back to his teachers Freud and Lacan: "Do not be afraid, come out of yourselves, follow life and not death." Translated into today's world, he explains to Giulia Santerini, it translates into an invitation to tear down walls, open up to others, take risks.

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