Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona.
“Both provocative and persuasive. Massimo Recalcati taps a rich seam of experience and analytic perception in this brief, elegant essay on love. The lessons he offers navigate us through love’s many turns and as many of its literary greats. All the while, he holds up a mirror to the predations of desire under capitalism, offering us instead an image of love in which the possibility of a' forever’ exists in an intimacy of strangers.” Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love “The book’s proclamations yield flashes of real wisdom” The Washington Post “[Recalcati’s] style entrances… the lyricism and spaciousness of his prose only intensify its impact. At times The Enduring Kiss reads like poetry, fluent and heedless, as if written in a sensual delirium.” The Australian