legal, and Legal.

An error, and its consequences.

Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[1]

“Psychoanalysis is a judgement, in the judicial meaning, in which the Subject becomes a civil party. Compared to the last judgement, it is a penultimate judgement. In the penultimate judgement… a Subject reasonably healed – this means having reconstituted one’s faculty of judgement with criticism and knowledge of the crisis, and the solution named by Freud ‘castration’ - will distinguish between the fault of the Other and the error installed in the Subject.”[2]

It is here, a reasonable goal of psychoanalysis, where a Subject can establish the crossroads between traditional thinking with ‘castration’ and legal thinking – that is legitimate thinking without ‘castration’[3] – of an unprecedented solution able to change relationships : to the point of protecting the Other – even an offender - from the evil he does as a consequence of his - or her - error, and with the benefit of being able to correct the error.

In this, and already in this, the legal comes in help of Legal. 

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – August 17, 2024 

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[1] Gianni Russomando, biographical note : “I’m born in Vercelli (1956), graduated at the ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, I describe myself as an ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter) and far from expositions and competitions.”

[2] In ‘Secondo tempo. L’errore nel pensiero del soggetto’ p. 161  - ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998)

[3] Legal thinking, legitimate without ‘castration’ is the silent talent, or negative talent, to perfect the construction of the law called ‘unconscious’, and identified by Freud in the crisis of the law itself : see ‘Il talento negativo’ pp. 169-174 in ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998).