It’s simple/1.

Attribution: not narration.

“The adjective ‘simple’ applies to a relation – relation and relationship are synonymous –, that is a relation between terms… They are not the only terms that exist in the world, they are the ones I choose, let’s say, in today’s introduction : the relation ‘simple’ which I designate is the imputation relation… Recognizing that an act has occurred is simple.”[1]

The unconscious, i.e. our thinking, is not a narration but an attribution[2] : first of all the unconscious attributes liking, from which every other attribution follows. Our language is therefore ‘synthesis’ of a power which is not at all innate : in view of that ‘synthesis’[3], no one can impose speech on a child.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - October 1, 2024

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[1] Taken from the Inaugural lecture by Giacomo B. Contri, November 5 - 2016, Symposium 2016 – 2017 ‘La civiltà dell’appuntamento. Per amor di legge.’ Organized by ‘Società Amici del Pensiero – Sigmund Freud’, Milan.

[3] ‘Ereditare da un bambino. Perché no ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti (2014) Grup. Editoriale L’Espresso ISBN 978-88-91081-63-6, pg. 28

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