Strawberries

 Original painting by Gianni Russomando[1]. Ref.: 0_5529224_125008.jpg

What about hiding when you just think of ?

                                      Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio August 14, 2021

[1] Gianni Russomando, biography : “I’m born in Vercelli (1956). Graduated at ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, I can describe me as a simple ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter). Far from expositions and competitions, it’s not a long time I’m on social media with a very personal aim : to give just a flash of quietl to anyone watching at my simple works.”

Very veeeery softly.

‘Original painting by Jacopo Ricci[1]. 

“Me, my ex boy-friend and our two eldest daughters were staying in U.S.A. waiting for our baby boy newborn.

Tara, the woman who three years before gave us our twins daughters, accepted again to help us and everything has been successful indeed…”[2]

                                                  Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio April 14, 2021

[1] Independent painter in Valenza-Alessandria (Italy), Jacopo Ricci is born in Milan in ‘80s (1988). He loves painting since he was a child but does turn on coloured pencils and brushes just at his Superior degree. He nowadays cooperates with online magazines, also for on demand commissions. In 2018 he illustrated ‘Dottor Tremarella’  and ‘Guarda Oltre’ ((published by the author himself). In 2019 began also working on  serigraphy. https://www.facebook.com/jacoporicciillustratore  https://www.instagram.com/jacoporicciillustratore/  

[2] From ‘Dear Daddy’, by Claudio Rossi Marcelli on “Internazionale” n°1401 – year 28/ March 19, 2021 - p.14

Books to work on 3’.

“The most fierce…”, “he couldn’t sleep…”, “…who ever could sing?”, “And soon he could understand…”[2] are grateful sentences to kids, things and verbs they can experience : but, on the other hand they fear magic and magicians that, also if at the end they seem to accept, they still ascribe to a wellknown habit of adults to mask their own weariness, and however children don’t like reproaching them.

I’ve so liked this book which so little space gives to magic and magician insolence, even smiling and frank, as in a few of these tales : and rather you can admit that, notwithstanding the favour of some enchantment, “due to his anger or his fear…”[3] keeps on standing the dull wall of human laziness, which is successful even in convincing humans to make with it their Law too, to everyone valid and easy to obey just to sweep away any anxiety from mind.

Are then the algorithms valid as a Law ?

So we have just been coming to the last tale of the book, ‘The old man and the rope’, where a really odd world let the children alone, without anyone reading or speaking or to be asked on their own questions : and if someone does, he or she is considered no socially profitable and then rejectable, that is the definition of ‘old people’.

It is a tale without any magic and enchantment, which rather recalls History[4] - the luckiest children did read that at school – into “the youngest and strongest ones” can agree even a death Law  to sweep away any people not able “to get any plough in the fields… neither to reap the wheat, …they are all in their pains and old age.”[5]

The ancient Bobore doesn’t oppose, he accepts the Law and he doesn’t express what he’s really thinking of, as “no one gives them any importance”[6]. He let his son, which unwillingly obeys to Law, can lead him up to the rope of Muccidorgiu ravin, a real existing place near Gorropu throat.

Come to the top, however, the son decides to hide his father in the near forest, where he’ll take something to eat : months pass by and an awful drought stops the harvest, even carrying the famine, so that the good son cannot carry to Bobore other than a few grains.

But Bobore doesn’t decay, as the youngest people in town begin to do, and surely taht is not due to his living alone in the forest : what the old man has thought of, linking his experience to his own memory, is not at all a magic recipe as it will save even the distressed citizens, still suffering from their lack of strength and ideas…

Children like to know about a favourable ‘law’ which doesn’t oppose to Law but which – also if it’s hidden to ordinary people - can efficiently integrate what does lack in any existing Law : and even when it has already become as an Algorithm.

                                            Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio February21, 2021.

[1] “Fiabe della Sardegna”, by Alberto Melis – Paintings by Giuseppe Braghiroli/ ‘Giunti Editore SpA’, ‘Giunti Kids – Un Mondo di Fiabe’.

[2] “Fiabe della Sardegna”, by Alberto Melis – Paintings by Giuseppe Braghiroli/ ‘Giunti Editore SpA’, pp.6-12: ‘Pera Zuanne’, the tale protagonist, has really lived.

[3] “Fiabe della Sardegna”, by Alberto Melis – Paintings by Giuseppe Braghiroli/ ‘Giunti Editore SpA’, p.25

[4] Even in our first school books we know about Tarpea rope in ancient Rome, or about Taigeto mountain in Sparta : Law did decreed death to old and unable people, a social rule that also nowadays seems to be diffused even as a State Law.

[5] “Fiabe della Sardegna”, by Alberto Melis – Paintings by Giuseppe Braghiroli/ ‘Giunti Editore SpA’, p.105.

[6] “Fiabe della Sardegna”, by Alberto Melis – Paintings by Giuseppe Braghiroli/ ‘Giunti Editore SpA’, p.109.

The following text was in view of the ‘Seminario Letture Freudiane’, by ‘Società Amici del Pensiero’ at Urbino - Università ‘Carlo Bo’ / Dipartimento ‘Economia, Società, Politica’, work session March 30, 2019 : due to lack of time, I pronounced it in classroom in its synthesis. In the picture : Urbino, Palazzo Ducale. Ref.: 0_5506649_125008.jpg

“ …Just in a few words about this morning item, ‘Panic’, specifically I’ll refer to lemma ‘work’, as Giacomo B. Contri introduced it in ‘Il pensiero di natura’[1] – it’s a long time I’ve never heard about it -  so that also finishing the work by Freud himself, who explicitated ‘pulsion’ pointing : ‘push’ – ‘goal’ – ‘subject’ – ‘source’[2], but keeping silent on ‘work’ in the lemma ‘subject’.

I’d like for help Jacques Lacan, a laborious analytical assiduous man, able to put upside down the freudian thinking, as no one of followers and formal heirs of Freud could do : Lacan put each one of us in front of the ruinous fall of pleasure principle when that meets the reality of life, throwing the psychoanalysis itself into confusion and rush.

When introducing ‘work’ from the freudian ‘subject’, Giacomo B. Contri has on the other hand shown the vitality of thinking and then of ‘unconscious’ – revolutionary and not yet overcome discover by Freud – and that is quite acceptable and fair enough as one gets deep and deep into freudian textes.[3]

Jacques Lacan, as a seductive investigator of thinking, however got to a rush conclusion, when he substituted ‘jouissance’[4] to what Freud had been pointing also if without naming it except ‘pulsion’.

Giacomo B. Contri named it ‘profit’, and ‘progress’, and this is what we are interested in, as a success in our own ‘work’ - we can’t deny – built on our partner work.

Freud named ‘push’ : Giacomo B. Contri has finished that saying it ‘ex-citamento’ which cannot be generalized otherwise ‘banalizing’ one’s own thinking, and making that unuseful as regard as a cure is intended. Also ‘jouissance’ exposed the work of Lacan to an ‘ad-rogantia’ that no cure is possible to psychopathology, and for children and babies[5] too.

My own conclusion is that no ‘primary panic’ does exist : panic is an individual jurisdiction, a formal right that each one of us can play whenever, and wherever we like.

That is also the reasonable thesis on which I could comment in my essay ‘Ereditare da un bambino. Perché no?’ (2014) the success Freud perfectly described bat couldn’t explain in his Case ‘The little Hans’. I realized an individual, and not deniable, competence in a child of less than five years when he excellently gave up his own zoofobia.

If ‘panic’ is - and correctly - an individual jurisdiction, that maybe opens to further opportunities in psychopathologies caring – and not just ‘treatment’ – even for children and babies.

Then, can ‘direct therapies’ nowadays accept a ‘proof test’ about their own competence in caring, rather than ‘treatment’… ?”

                                                                                                                 Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio January 16, 2021

[1] “ …I’ve just explicitated that the nature of an act indicated by : ‘Do as…’ is its ‘work’ : ‘work’ by a subject disposing ‘things’ otherwise named ‘ente’… so that doing that way he, or she, calls claims favours, or saving words ‘demands’ some work to someone else, implying universe, in order he, or she work favouring a satisfaction of the first, and beginner, subject and in the same time of his own, or her own satisfaction. It is the progress and profit succeeded when ruling the separation of work between two distinctive position not omologhi...” Cited from : ‘Il pensiero di natura’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998, 2°edizione) SIC Edizioni – pp. 19-20

[2] The formula of a law on nature : “Making me suckling, my mother has been calling me to be satisfied by means of an other subject”, in ‘Il pensiero di natura’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998) / pp.50-54 (‘Anticipazione. Preambolo’); pp. 195-197.

[3] ‘Pulsioni e loro destini’, S. Freud (1915) in “Scritti metapsicologici”, ‘Bollati Boringhieri editore’ (1978 e 2011) ‘Biblioteca’, pp. 27-52 : the original word Freud used and then translated ‘pulsion’ was ‘trieb’. Freud does explicite an order of four items of ‘pulsion’ that is the same emerging from analytical work, i.e. from the view point of the analyzing subject : ‘push’, ‘goal’, subject’, ‘source’. During his,or her work, a patient could compose again in a new order : ‘push’, source’, subject’, ‘goal’.

[4] “…In what then the ‘unconscious’ would be more honoured rather than the defenses opposing in the subject, even succeeding and so that showing their reality? ...But I ask from where the peace is coming when realizing the ‘unconscious’ if that one is no more real than the conflict in which it stayed ? It’s sometimes that peace is infact a fallen peace…” Cited from : ‘La cosa freudiana. Senso di un ritorno a Freud’ in “Jacques Lacan. Scritti” by Giacomo B. Contri, Giulio Einaudi editore SpA (1974 e 2002) ‘Biblioteca Einaudi’ Vol. I - p.395.

[5] “Ereditare da un bambino. Perché no ?”, Marina Bilotta Membretti (2014) Isbn 978-88-91081-63-6 / Cap.3 ‘Il pensiero è economico, fin da bambino’, pp.27-32.