In admitting the presence of ‘I’ – although conflicted – this indicates the starting point of a competence work, science of one’s own thinking, even when one’s thinking had the access keys hanging up on a nail, and perhaps was already retreating into an autonomy of relationships.

Perversion admits of no starting point, finding in one’s own reactive formation that comfort and that justification which asks them nothing more than to package – even beautifully – someone else’s thinking.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – February 28, 2024

Original painting by Gianni Russomando[2]

[1] In ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S. Freud (1922) OSF Vol.9 Bollati Boringhieri, pp.486-487 Freud cites G. W. Groddeck, ‘Das Buch vom Es’ from which he drew inspiration to name ‘Es’ the pleas of ‘I’ in conflict with Superego. In ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, SIC Edizioni (1998) Cap.II ‘La Carta o Enciclopedia del pensiero di natura’ – Parag. 16, p.121 Giacomo B. Contri says : “Freud instead made a point of underlining that his ‘Es’ is precisely that of the common expression ‘es ist stärker als ich’, ‘it’s stronger than me’.” When literally translating ‘it is stronger than I’, the German language offers us a clear comparison between the two terms ‘it’ and ‘I’ which the analysand often and confidently mentions, but finding himself, or herself, unprepared to analyze.

[2] 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.”