Thinking as a partner

“There is no trust, reliability, if there’s no profit for the other one.

…

Therefore three are my conclusive chapters : Law, Science, Trust.”[1]

To benefit from one’s calling[2] / 8.

Dissimilarly from fishing, which in given conditions can be carried out as self-governed, any analytical work stands on the competence of three different, and distanced, subjects : analyst analysand supervisor, where the leading competence is up to the analysand as an authoritative subject also in calling for the specific status of a temporary impasse which makes him, or her, asking for support in favour of a better defence.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – July 14, 2022

[1] Cited by : ‘Tre capitoli’, Contribution January 7, 2022 by Giacomo B. Contri for Symposium ‘Amore’ 2021 – 2022‘, organized by Società Amici del Pensiero’.                                

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

…or desire.

                                                                        To benefit from one’s calling.[2] / 7

A crossroads cannot be portrayed.[3]

                                                   Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - June 17, 2022

<In the picture, quotation by : ‘Shangai 1949’ in ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson. Cina 1948-1949 / 1958’, MU.DE.C. ‘Museo delle Culture’, Milano 18.02 – 03.07 / 2022>

[1] “Work so that you will acknowledge, or will perceive (the benefit), starting up the work of a partner (it is the idea of investment, ‘Besetzung’, involving obligation)” – ‘Il pensiero di natura’, di Giacomo B. Contri  - SIC Edizioni (1998) p.18

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

[3] “Freudian man is transcendent with respect to nature – brain included – and without all those ‘things’ on transcendence. There is a sin (another word of mine) Freud singled out, which is an omission sin, also said ‘drive renunciation’, or better ‘renunciation to the drive’ (‘Triebverzicht’) : it is an omission in compliance of the law articles ‘drive’, an omission where dissatisfaction and anguish are linked. To the omission (named ‘removal’ in the neurosis…) follows systematization-censorship : it consists in suturing, intellectually and practically, the two borders of the wound or gap produced by the omission, so that the omission itself doesn’t appear… The ‘Triebverzicht’ is singled out by Freud in our Culture, so as in any production of individual pathology, as a consequence – not a ‘natural’ effect – of a trauma, which I always say consisting in a pathogenic Theory. Freud wishes the fall of omission-systematization as a condition for an Order, instead of a contradictory and conflictual System, also imperative up to fierce and obscene.” Cited by : ‘La formazione dello psicoanalista’, Giacomo B. Contri in ‘THINK!’ 15 maggio 2014 – Par. III ‘Certezza della legge’

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