Thinking as a partner

To benefit from one’s calling / 20[1].

“If what becomes conscious as pleasure or displeasure is indicated as a quantitative-qualitative ‘quid’ when psychic occurrence is being, the question arises whether this ‘quid’ can become conscious whereas it is… Our clinical experience… shows that ‘quid’ is behaving as a removed impulse.”[2]

Freud’ observation refers to the censorship by conscience towards the alteration, and towards the institution of a crossroads which thinking perceives, also physically, regard one’s neurosis…

Conscience legality is imputable, as we know : if this legality remains undisputed that leads even to forgetting – in working session itself – what the thought was saying.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – March 5, 2023

Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[3]

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

[2] ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S. Freud (1922) – ‘OSF, Vol. IX’ Bollati Boringhieri 2020, p.485

[3] 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.”

Of how a young baron climbs the trees and decides to stay there all the life.

‘Le baron perché’, translated in French language from  the Italian original ‘Il barone rampante’ by Italo Calvino (1957), at the association ‘Estella’ at Barcelonnette (Haute Provence, Francia) present for years and committed to promoting the attendance of school especially through training outings.

To benefit from one’s calling[1]/19.

“…Psychoanalysis consists in walking on all fours – that is partnership, without confusion of subjects or legs – which, if it ends well, still remain as an endowment (i.e. dowry) for the following life too.”[2]

It doesn’t clear the anguish, it doesn’t make a solution : but it opens to imagination, so captivating and dangerous.

So that, evidently, the reciprocal holds : from one’s capability to make partnership you can read a good dowry (i.e. endowment), satisfactory goal of individual work.

Science of thinking is a bit like bread, for those who usually eat brioches.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – January 19, 2023

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

[2] Cited from : ‘Un uomo che ha domani’, in ‘Opera omnia di Giacomo B. Contri’ 2015, Sezione ‘Saggi, testi pro-  manuscripto’, pg.12

‘Burnout’, by F. Duranti[1] : drawn from the exhibition ‘Glossario clinico di Psichiatria per Immagini’ – Pavia, ‘Hangart Studio’ October 8 – 23, 2022.

To benefit from one’s calling [2] / 18.

“We pass the most part of our daily life to forecast, and to try to avoid, the emotional punishments we inflict to ourselves. How seriously should we take these intangible results, these self-inflicted                       punishments we experience as we mark the points of our life ?... To be subject to regret, such as to subject to the faint is a fact of the life to which we have to adapt.”[3]

A defense can’t ignore the capacity that thought has to maintain an emotional experience also when it hasn’t been identified : it is out of logic indeed the removal – worth repeating – for the intellectual paleness which follows and the unpleasant consequences of it.

Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio 10 gennaio 2023

[1] The biographical notes are drawn from the brochure available at the exhibition// Franco Duranti has an academic background in Fine Arts and in Conservatory  of Music in Milan : hsi own work merges with an activity as an Art therapist in hospital (Milan, Pavia, Legnano). In 1988 he begins a long quest to give life to a ‘ Clinical Glossary of Psychiatry for Imaging’ – these are notebooks of working – ended only in 2021 and starting from a field observation of patients attending the Art Laboratories inside the Health Units : it is a study aimed at distress and emotional sides, a trace to observe what cannot be observed with a strongly calligraphic graphic language, as supported by an active career as engraver.

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

[3] Cited from ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, D. Kahneman (2011) Mondadori Libri SpA (2013), p.474

To benefit from one’s calling [2] /17.

“Besides quackery and paranoia, Freud achieves certainty in psychoanalysis as he abandoned hypnosis.”[3]

“‘Triebverzicht’ is recognized by Freud in Culture, so as in the production of individual pathology, as a consequence (not a natural effect) of a trauma, which I confirm always consisting of a pathogenic Theory.”[4]

Logic and love : why not ?

Logic has a body. And love is not de-mentia.

Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio December 5, 2022

[1] “Three are then my concluding chapters : Law, Science, Faith.” in ‘Tre capitoli’ / Contribution January 7, 2022 - Giacomo B. Contri for Symposium 2021 – 2022 ‘Amore’. 

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

[3] Cited by ‘La formazione dello psicoanalista’ – Parag. II ‘Certezza’, Giacomo B. Contri in ‘THINK !’ May 12, 2014.

[4] Cited by ‘La formazione dello psicoanalista’ – Parag. III ‘Certezza delle legge’, Giacomo B. Contri in ‘THINK !’ May 15, 2014.