Definite, definitive.  

An indelible quotient.

In the above photo, a detail taken from ‘Portrait of a young man’ (1474) by Antonello Da Messina/ oil on walnut 26,7 x 31,5cm and shown during the exhibition ‘Antonello Da Messina’ (2019) – at the ‘Palazzo Reale’ in Milan; now at the ‘Philadelphia Museum of Art’ – ‘The John G. Johnson Collection’.

 

 

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 55.

 

“to keep perceptual orientation the neuron needs the economic orientation.” [2]

“…therefore three are my concluding chapters Law Science Faith.” [3].

 

Ap-prehends, Giacomo B. Contri, the certain observation by Freud that memory is started by ‘mnestic remnants’ among which, those captured first and foremost, are the auditory ones: even evident is Freud’ intention – maybe a little vaporization in the translations – to refer to that ‘quotient’ (or ‘quot’ in Latin language) which remains indelible because it makes sense, literally.

For this reason we refer as ‘mnestic quotient’.

One’s orientation is then only ‘economic’ to allow the perceptual: in this immediately constituting the ‘juridical’.

 

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – June 28, 2025

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

[2] Citaz. da THINK! di Giacomo B. Contri, 10 ottobre 2014

[3] Citaz. da ‘Contributo 7 gennaio 2022’ di Giacomo B. Contri al Simposio ‘Amore’ 2021 – 2022, organizzato da ‘Società Amici del pensiero – Sigmund Freud’, Milano.