Thinking as a partner

What we perceive may not coincide with what we imagined we would feel.[1]

“Then the negative talent, or non-claim   (‘claim’ is a legal concept) which is the formal condition of the law (law of the motion - editor’s note), consists in making a good not an object, but a negative component of the law itself, to have no-say…  without abolishing oneself as reality (indeed as a condition for not abolishing oneself as a reality).”[2]

“… only what has already once been perception ‘c’ can become conscious.”[3]

To benefit from one’s calling[4]/ 41.

The unconscious does not exist before the reality, that is one’s unconscious doesn’t exist before what was perceived.

The existence of the unconscious is a faculty of humans, and not a claimable right, not an automatism : it is the faculty to sanction what is perceived, with pleasure – that remains the primary, or reference sanction – or displeasure, and it remains a faculty even when you resist to it, removing or diverting the sanction to something else and Others not implicated, with damages and pathology.

But at last is up to one’s removed thinking – as it refers only to the perceived – to fish out in the memory all the work done in vain to deviate or remove a very precious and wasted sanction, indelible for life as the perceived one.

Psychoanalysis doesn’t need fantasies.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – September 13, 2024

[1] In the picture : a detail from the anthological exhibition of Robert Doisneau (1912 - 1994) at the ‘Museo Diocesano’ of Milan, May 9 – October 15, 2023. (At care of Gabriel Bauret, promoted by ‘Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e  Rovigo’, and produced by ‘Silvana Editoriale’ with the patronage of the Municipality of Milan, with contributions of ‘Fondazione Banca Popolare di Milano’ and ‘Fondazione Fiera Milano’).

[2] Cit. da : ‘Costruzione (della norma fondamentale della legge del moto)’ p. 99 in ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998).

[3] Cit. da : ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S. Freud 1922 - OSF Bollati Boringhieri (2020) Vol. 9 p.483 

[4] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1

Cultivating is an excellent name for ‘work’, as well for the craftsman as for the researcher : however calling a landscape ‘anthropized’ does not highlight the profit that results from the work itself.

Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[1]

To benefit from one’s calling[2] / 39.

“There is a condition for one to be able, as well as necessary, to talk about imputability, a condition that should make blush the ignorance with which our Culture is sick, and which it propagates : that of knowing that the concept of imputability is not only or primarily a penal concept but also, and above all, a reward concept (in order, they are attributable : merit, sin, crime).”[3]

‘Work’ is rewarding, as anyone who is admitted to it knows.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – August 26, 2024

[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] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1

[3] Cit. da : ‘Una psicologia amica’, Giacomo B. Contri p. 10 in ‘La Città dei malati’ – Maria Antonietta Aliverti, Raffaella Colombo, Giacomo B. Contri, Maria Delia Contri, Marina Massimi, Giorgio Moretti SIC Edizioni 1994

“Ransom is not the concept of an exchange of equivalents : there is freedom gained.”[1]

To benefit from one’s calling[2] / 39.

The error of an abstraction regarding the sexes remains, the error of a false of equivalence and boredom.

Yet it is precisely one’s mistake that sets in motion the work – without automatism or devices – in order to reconstitute the relationships in the inequality, and able to redeem and offer freedom : here it is the science that Freud called ‘unconscious’.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – August 26, 2024

In the picture : a detail from the anthological exhibition of Robert Doisneau (1912 - 1994) at the ‘Museo Diocesano’ of Milan, May 9 – October 15, 2023. (At care of Gabriel Bauret, promoted by ‘Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e  Rovigo’, and produced by ‘Silvana Editoriale’ with the patronage of the Municipality of Milan, with contributions of ‘Fondazione Banca Popolare di Milano’ and ‘Fondazione Fiera Milano’).

[1] Cited from : ‘Il riscatto’ p.209 in ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998).

[2] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1 

Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[1]

To benefit from one’s calling[2] / 38.

“The Group, or the Mass – timeless remains for us ‘Psychology of the Masses’, by Freud -                    -  insinuates itself where there is Right : it is the weeds of it. We will not try to tear them away (intolerance) but to distinguish them from wheat. Note : there is group or mass when a Leader as an Ideal or Object – the individual person may even be missing - replaces one’s thinking in the grammatical subject ‘I’…”[3]

Weeds enjoy a disconcerting bonhomie which is that of their presumed primary innocence to make their own error non-existent (albeit one that brings damage, and is huge) : not even naive, it is truly a gnostic illusion. 

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – August 8, 2024

[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] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1

[3] Cited from : ‘Articolo 5° - Legame sociale di gruppo versus legame sociale giuridico’ p.34 in ‘Società Amici del pensiero – Sigmund Freud’, Statute drawn up by Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (2010)