Motionless.

‘Working memory’, by F. Duranti[1] : drawn from the exhibition ‘Glossario clinico di Psichiatria per Immagini’ – Pavia, ‘Hangart Studio’ October 8 – 23, 2022.

 

 

“System 1. It operates quickly and automatically, with little or no effort and  no sense of voluntary control.

 System 2. It directs attention to the demanding mental activities that require focus, such as complex calculations.”[2]

“ It takes longer to say ‘automatic system’ than ‘system 1’ so that the first expression takes up more space in our working memory. Everything occupies working memory reduces our ability to think.”[3]

 

 

No regard, then, for starting work as thinking capability to inform us about limits of our competence is not a characteristic of conscience.

It is the unconscious, as a matter of fact, able to supply us with this not ambiguous, quick message : whose communication, however, depends on how much conscience considers oneself independent of thought initiation.

Any reaction forming[4] is, by logic, secondary to an initial assessment on the offer to which it refers.

 

 

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – February 6, 2023

 

 

[1] The biographical notes are drawn from the brochure available at the exhibition// Franco Duranti has an academic background in Fine Arts and in Conservatory  of Music in Milan : hsi own work merges with an activity as an Art therapist in hospital (Milan, Pavia, Legnano). In 1988 he begins a long quest to give life to a ‘ Clinical Glossary of Psychiatry for Imaging’ – these are notebooks of working – ended only in 2021 and starting from a field observation of patients attending the Art Laboratories inside the Health Units : it is a study aimed at distress and emotional sides, a trace to observe what cannot be observed with a strongly calligraphic graphic language, as supported by an active career as engraver.

[2] ‘Pensieri lenti e veloci, D. Kahneman (2011) Mondadori Libri SpA, p.25 / As far as ‘Sistema 1’ and ‘Sistema 2’ D. Kahneman cited ‘Individual Differences in Reasoning. Implications for the Rationality Debate’, by K. Stanovich and R. West in ‘Behavioral and Brain Sciences’, 23, 2000.

[3] ‘Pensieri lenti e veloci, D. Kahneman (2011) Mondadori Libri SpA, p.37

[4] ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S.Freud (1922) in ‘OSF – Vol. IX’ Bollati Boringhieri 2020, pgg.496-498