Thinking as a partner

In the picture, the pantesco Garden in Pantelleria (Sicily), which F.A.I. Fondo Ambiente Italiano received as a donation in 2008 from the Winery ‘Donna Fugata Srl’ : the special garden was necessary since XVI century to prevent scurvy, a disease strucking mainly the sailors, because it allowed the citrus to grow and strengthen until it could be eaten. Open to both the sun and the night air, but well protected from harsh sea winds of the little island, thanks to the porosities of the lava stone, all around disposed according to firm technical rules and able to take its roots into the richest soil of Pantelleria, the same tree could take oranges and lemons up to four different qualities. The microclimate of the pantesco Garden infact enjoys both a fair temperature and humidity only granted by the night condensate and the few rains on the island.

To benefit from one’calling [1] / 6.

Freud found that the drive can be portrayed[2] : the start up[3] indeed performs its benefit[4].

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio June 8, 2022

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

[2] ‘Compendio di psicoanalisi’ S. Freud (1938) – Bollati Boringhieri (1980).

[3] ‘Il pensiero di natura’, Giacomo B. Contri (1998) SIC Edizioni p.194 ‘La formula della legge di natura’.

[4] In ‘Aldilà del principio di piacere’ (1920) Freud notes : “following with sobriety the thought of Darwin” that “…the benefit received from amphimixes has been then kept and used”. OSF Bollati Boringhieri Vol. IX p. 242

To benefit from one’calling[1] / 5.

Original painting by Gianni Russomando[2]

“Love, if it is, is work on work : it is a real matter, i.e. love, or it is not, or - even worse - is the ‘énamoration’ which correctly Lacan observed to end as ‘haine-amoration’, i.e. hatred, as is not who doesn’t know. Saying that it is a real matter is not just an idiom : it means that is furtherly producing something which wasn’t yet here – the good ‘Dasein’ -, with fruit or profit, i.e. with a surplus not exactly homologous to the capitalist one (I don’t join who proposes the ‘fructum ventris’ as the first fruit)”.[3]

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - April 24, 2022

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

[2] Original painting by Gianni Russomando : born in Vercelli (1956), graduated at the ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, he describes himself as an ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter) and far from expositions and competitions.

[3] ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, by Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni – second edition 1998. ‘Prefazione alla seconda edizione. Ontologia, patologia, diritto’, Parag. ‘Lavoro’ / Nota 23 - p.20

To benefit from one’calling[1] / 4.

                                                                       A psychoanalyst is not ingenuous[2].

                                                              Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - April 15, 2022[3]

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

[2] “There isn’t trust, reliability when there is no profit for the other one.”, cited by ‘Tre capitoli’, Contribution January 7, 2022 by Giacomo B. Contri to the Symposium ‘Amore’ 2021-2022.

[3] Original painting by Gianni Russomando : born in Vercelli (1956), graduated at the ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, he describes himself as an ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter) and far from expositions and competitions.

 To benefit from one’s calling[1] / 3.

Since ancient times men and women had to face their own anguish : the artistic decorations was one way to play down the load of one's anguish. In the picture : seventeenth century balconies at Ortigia – Siracuse (Sicily, Italy).

                “A Psychoanalyst should every time put himself, or herself, a paranoia test.”[2]

                                                                      Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – April 6, 2022

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

[2] ‘Due test’ in ‘Paragrafo I - La formazione dello psicoanalista’, Giacomo B. Contri / ‘THINK!’ 10-11 maggio 2014