This book seeks to illuminate the scene of Gethsemane in all its aspects.

But why should we return to the night of Gethsemane? Mainly, why should a psychoanalyst do this? The answer for me - or, better, to myself - is clear: Because, through this scene, the biblical text speaks of humanity in a radical way, touching on the essence of the human condition, the condition of "without God," the fragility of man, his lack, his anxiety.

Are not the wounds of abandonment and betrayal, the wound of inevitable death, the deepest wounds that one is called to endure? It is not the night of God but the night of man.