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“I wish it were unnecessary to point out that the lapsus, always and only human, is not produced automatically, the computer is powerless to produce lapsus: who would have said that the lapsus is a profit, which few take advantage of.”
(Cit. from THINK! by Giacomo B. Contri, ‘Freudian economic subversion’ October 30 – 2009).
A work of economic restitution to the juridical.
Above: screenshot taken from the exhibition ‘Miracoli a Milano. Carlo Orsi[1] fotografo’/ Palazzo Morando, Milan (31.10.2024 – 02.02.2025).
“We note that ‘Inc’ (Unconscious) does not coincide with one’s removed; it remains correct to assert that everything removed is ‘inc’(unconscious), but not that every ‘Inc’ (Unconscious) is removed. Even a portion of one’s own ‘I’, a portion God knows how important, can be, and indeed is, ‘inc’(unconscious).” [2]
Freud is a laic - that is, neither an atheist nor a gnostic.
He respects an 'unknowing' that can be investigated, but which conscience[3] quickly discards, making one’s own —precisely in doing so—unreliable to the science of thinking, which instead demands all available materials: first and foremost those that are not removed, perhaps having escaped conscience?
Freudian journalism implies a work of economic restitution to the juridical, which conscience rashly neglects - not without an economic damage - when registering one’s own thinking: to judge reliability is not the task of conscience.
Nevertheless, conscience is the definitive thinking, and finally responsible.
Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – September 26, 2026
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[1] Carlo Orsi (Milan 08.03.1941 – Bergamo 31.05.2021) started as a reporter for the daily newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’, later dedicating himself to reportage in Italy and abroad for various periodicals (‘Panorama’, ‘Il Mondo’, ‘Oggi’), as well as advertising campaigns, including in the fashion field. In 1965, he published his first book dedicated to Milan, featuring text written by Dino Buzzati, followed by a second book in 2015. In 1984, he held his first photographic exhibition. In 1997, he founded the magazine 'Città', which is dedicated to Milan.
[2] Cited from: ‘Coscienza e inconscio’ in ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S. Freud (1923) – OSF Vol. 9 Bollati Boringhieri, pp.480-481.
[3] “Law is one’s thinking – thinking ‘on’ nature – that has been made memory on a memory already formed by the first experience of satisfaction through Another one. It is conscience outlawed, i.e. outside this law, not in compliance with the law, that opposes one’s memory, and such a conscience is all the more in opposition to the law-memory the more Power’s ambition becomes over one’s law-memory.” Cited from : ‘Inconscio. Precisazione’ in ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, by Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998), p.166
Imago cannot sanction.
"According to us, this activity retains the meaning we give it up to the age of eighteen months—a meaning no less revealing of a libidinal dynamism... than of an ontological structure of the human world that fits into our studies on paranoid knowledge. ...It therefore seems to us to manifest in an exemplary situation the symbolic matrix in which ‘I’ precipitates into a primordial form... This form situates the instance of ‘I’, even before a social determination, in a line of a fake, forever irreducible only for the individual... We ourselves have shown in the social dialectic which structures human knowledge as paranoid, the reason that makes it more autonomous than that of the animal from the field of strength for desire..."[1]
One’s capacity of attributing and sanctioning which begins with birth and with the related offer of the surrounding reality, remains a power, a laborious option[2] of the Subject, even as a newborn: not an automatism nor an ontology of the species.
Even a fake must be assented to by a Subject—though much less easily by a newborn—and such assent remains in memory, traceable, and with the power to elaborate and involve the other in their relationship.
It is indeed in memory—which is imputative every time —that Imago turns out alienated from the judgement on the other, and with it, from the desire, which results illusory and imaginary.
Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – June 19, 2026
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[1] Taken from “Lo stadio dello specchio come formatore della funzione dell’io”, p.91-93 in ‘Jacques Lacan. Scritti – Vol.I’ edited by Giacomo B. Contri/ ‘Biblioteca Einaudi’ Giulio Einaudi editore Spa (2002).
[2] ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti/ NeP edizioni Srls (2024) – Chapter 3/ ‘A four-stroke start ? p.82
'Es' does not fulfil the unconscious.
“The mirror stage is a drama whose internal push rushes from insufficiency to anticipation… and finally to the assumption of the armour of an alienating identity, which will mark one’s entire mental development with a rigid structure. …Correlatively, the formation of ‘I’ is onirically symbolized as an entrenched camp or a stage, which distributes between the internal arena and its perimeter—a periphery of rubble and swamps—two opposing camps in struggle in which the subject engulfs himself or herself… whose form… seductively symbolizes ‘Es’. …If, indeed, Verneinung[1] represents the patent form, the effects will for the most part remain latent until they are illuminated by some reflected light on the level of fatality in which ‘ça’ appears.”[2]
Even the “assumption of the armour”—which already involves a judgement about the contribution of the Other—is a work[3] for the Subject, even as a newborn, and of which the Subjects make their own memory, without ontological automatism: this is why “onirically” can only be referred to the nights dreams when consciousness is sleeping, but not to the ‘daydreams’ that extends to hallucination and delirium, where consciousness is still presumably vigilant.
It is precisely from this work that one’s memory—indelible, albeit removable—can draw upon each time, with a ‘power’ of control over it whose convenience even a baby of a few months grasps, without leaving room for fatality: ‘Es’—however much it may be called “seductive”—does not exhaust the potentialities of the unconscious.
Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – June 10, 2026
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[1] Verneinung, translat: ‘denial’.
[2] Taken from “Lo stadio dello specchio come formatore della funzione dell’io”, p.91-93 in ‘Jacques Lacan. Scritti – Vol.I’ edited by Giacomo B. Contri/ ‘Biblioteca Einaudi’ Giulio Einaudi editore Spa (2002).
[3] ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti/ NeP edizioni Srls (2024) – Chapter 3/ ‘A four-stroke start ? p.82
memory vs identification.
"...the human babies, at an age when for a brief period—yet for a period nonetheless—is surpassed in instrumental intelligence by the chimpanzee, already recognize, however, their own image as such in the mirror... One need only understand the mirror stage as an identification in the full sense that psychoanalysis gives to this term: namely, as the transformation produced in the subjects when they assumes an image, whose predestination to this phase effect is already indicated by the use, in the theory, of the ancient term imago."[1]
Well before six months of age, babies[2] are able to grasp 'the mirror' – or even the smartphone in selfie mode – as indispensable to manufacturing the effect of their own 'image', which precisely reflects back a non-unifying mode of presence.
And it is interesting to note how babies perceive the other's voice—even when looking in the mirror near them—as coming from the 'body' of the other and not 'from the mirror': so that it is the body's memory that judges the image in the mirror, but does not identify with it.
How then does that crossroads - thus not a primary one—become possible between memory—which belongs only to the body—and imagination—which alienates from the body, and therefore from the other—to manufacture 'desire'?
It is the issue of removal, an insufficient and painful, yet correctable option of thinking: or an unmodifiable ontology.
Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – June 1, 2026
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[1] Taken from “Lo stadio dello specchio come formatore della funzione dell’io”, pp.87-88 in ‘Jacques Lacan. Scritti – Vol.I’ edited by Giacomo B. Contri/ ‘Biblioteca Einaudi’ Giulio Einaudi editore Spa (2002).
[2] ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti/ NeP edizioni Srls (2024) – Chapter 3/ ‘A four-stroke start ? p.82
Let them become ex-citing to the Subject through their word.
In the photo: screenshot of the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles/ California.
Language is not indispensable to unconscious[1] thinking, which is already a complete thinking: even if it does not seem so to the Other.
The unconscious is, in fact, an absolutely individual sanction to the other offering themselves: logically, it could not begin before the human and physiological birth of a Subject.
But the other, not to flounder and lose their bearings, suggests the word: let them therefore become ex-citing to the Subject through their word. And the Subject – though a newborn – will learn with a healthy appetite, as if nursing: because they care about governance.
As a matter of fact language is for the Subject – though a newborn but not a fool – an indispensable tool for governance.
Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – May 23, 2026
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[1] ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti/ NeP edizioni Srls (2024) – Chapter 3/ ‘A four-stroke start ? p.82
From the hypotheses to the resolution.
In the photo: ‘Mosè’ (1513 – 1542) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), Basilica S. Pietro in Vincoli - Rome.
“I want to add a connection between the two chapters of my intervention, last December 16th, legal conception of love and science of thinking, and faith.”[1]
‘Concluding chapter’ is a resolution, and peace: one’s work already began with hypotheses of thinking, of which Freud was the first scientist as he identified the instance that sanctions conscience.
However there is a step, which starts from the hypotheses and arrives to the resolution – we can call it faith – from which no scientist, as a Sciences operator, would exempt himself, or herself.
Moses is an adult, and entrusted to the Government: the Tables of the Law that he even knows and by which he considers himself chosen, are sliding to him on the ground because a thinking has prevailed. Faith is not necessarily hope: Moses is close to a conclusion he had not foreseen, realistic indeed but shocking, and that not yet reached to conscience: it is already a thinking, his own gaze cannot be avoided.
In a very long time, and characterized by wars, made of desperate abandonments and tenacious returns, the cultured Michelangelo had worked on it: just like Moses, he too is no longer a child who gratifies without delay or condemns without early release. The trustworthiness of what he only intuits will make conscience swallow unnecessary remorse and repentance that others deserve. Michelangelo is an adult when he sculpts in marble the concluding faith which already paid dearly the naivety of deception and therefore admits the reality of deceivers and perverts.
Moses is an adult who saves himself: this, Michelangelo leaves us engraved in marble.
Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – January 17, 2025
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[1] Cited from incipit ‘Tre capitoli’ 7 gennaio 2022, Contribution by Giacomo B. Contri to the Symposium ‘Amore’ 2021 – 2022 organized by ‘Società Amici del pensiero Sigmund Freud’, Milan.
