recalcati, la parola di gesu sul lettino di freud 

La Parola di Gesù sul lettino di Freud is the title of a newspaper article written by Massimo Recalcati in "la Repubblica" on 14^th January 2013. The article is arranged into seven paragraphs. The writer of the article praises Francoise Dolto, a French psychoanalyst, for her work Vangeli alla luce della psicoanalisi. Recalcati appreciates Dolto for her originality of ideas in psychoanalysis, also because she has never hidden her Catholic faith, even if Freud affirmed religious man is dazzled by a narcissistic illusion. Recalcati states religion is a delusion of men who hide the fear of cruel reality behind the salvific and transcendental world of God. This is the idea of traditional psychoanalysis, except for Lacan and Dolto: particularly she psychoanalyses Jesus' words, the Gospels. According to Dolto, Jesus is the master of desire, his law coincides with desire. The article provides an example of Dolto's originality: she turns upside down the Christian parable of the good Samaritan through a psychoanalytic attitude. The neighbor is the good Samaritan. The divine law of desire moves to separation to follow desire and a complete life development. Jesus pushes us in front of the risk of loss in life and at the same time he attracts us to pursue desire.

The article provides an example which makes some features of the Postmodern thought more decipherable. First of all "there is nothing outside the text" as Jacques Derrida says: a text is a product of intertextuality. Dolto's work refers to the Gospels. Secondly the concept of author is dead. The noun "author" derives from "authority". Religious dogmas represented Victorian people's points of reference: religion was the moral and ethic authority. On the other hand Recalcati highlights how Dolto turns upside down the catechist interpretation of the parable of the good Samaritan. Since God is dead, as Nietzsche says, dogmatic and religious interpretations of reality fall: the reader, the self, constructs a subjective interpretation of a text. As a consequence Relativism develops till Derrida's interpretative drift.