Thinking as a partner

Who, then, is doing the work?

In the photo: ‘Self-portrait in front of the wall of the house’ (1926), Edvar Munch/ Oslo, Munch Museum.

To benefit from one’s calling[1] /70. 

Unconscious cannot put to work consciousness which, moreover, takes great care not to admit the unconscious. Who, then, is doing the work?

Despite any doubts about it, whoever was satisfied will have worked[2] to pass to ‘I’. 

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – January 26, 2026

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

[2] ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S. Freud (1921) OSF Bollati Boringhieri Vol. 9° pp.482-484

Work to be satisfied.

In the photo: ‘Odilon Bébé Bourdon’ pp.4-5 – Gallimard Jeunesse (2008)

Books to work on/ 8.

                                                                                                     “While breastfeeding, my mother ex-cited, that is, called for me, to be satisfied by means of someone else.”[1]

Today is Diana’s birthday.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio - January 20, 2026

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[1] Cited from p. 54  ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, by Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998).

The unconscious knows no signifiers.

Bathed in a familiar dim light, the sanctions by unconscious are removed. In the photo: a detail from the mural ‘Around the table II’, by Mohamed L’Ghacham (Tangier/ Morocco, 1993)/ Milan, MUDEC ‘Invasion. Dal Muralismo alla Street Art’ 20.03-29.06.2025

To benefit from one’s calling[1] / 69.

The unconscious knows no sigNifiers – which conscience[2] instead observes: because the unconscious continuously sanctions what is supplied.

‘I’ cannot miss to consider this fruitful position of unconscious.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – January 17, 2026

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

[2] THINK!, by Giacomo B. Contri/ ‘Il Tribunale Freud e il suo imputato’ - October 12, 2006

Perception and removal : how is it possibile?

Perception is a superficial quality. Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[1]

To benefit from one’s calling[2] / 68.

It is not through a loud voice that conscience achieves the fall of the principle of pleasure, or removal: nothing transcendental, it is a surrogate for thinking.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – December 30, 2025

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[1] Gianni Russomando, short biography : “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