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)