Advantage: that is, benefit.

Amphimixis proved to be a benefit.

In the ‘70s Galtrucco was one of the first to welcome the novelty of prêt-à-porter, alongside the traditional textiles to be made in tailoring. In the above photo, a detail taken from the exhibition ‘Galtrucco. Tessuti Moda Architettura’ – Milan, ‘Palazzo Morando’, December 13, 2024 – June 15, 2025.

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 48.

“…the origin of the reproduction  would be explained… with a soberly Darwinian reasoning… that the advantage produced by ‘amphimixis’ was then maintained and used in the subsequent evolution…”[2] 

“Freud has indeed singled out for sure the biological advantage of amphimixis, which is ‘maintained and used in the subsequent evolution’ - and we could say according to economics because it produces a surplus which increases the reality, thus taking into account one’s principle of pleasure…”[3]

It took about a hundred years to attribute to the term ‘advantage', and ‘benefit’ too’ as it was finally identified by Freud, the exclusively economic character it has in reality: that is, the result of a judgement that requires investment and work.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - March 30, 2025

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

[2] Cited from  ‘Al di là del principio di piacere’,  Sigmund Freud (1920) in Bollati e Boringhieri - Vol.IX p.242.

[3] Cited from ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti (2024) p.47 / NeP edizioni Srls - Roma