Thinking as a partner

 registration and sanction.

To benefit from one’s calling[1] / 78.

Upon birth, a child registers all at once the changes consisting of the presence of the Other compared to before: but the unconscious is fulfilled only with the sanction[2] of such registration. There is, therefore, an interval between registration and sanction: sanction and non-dispositive, meaning not automatic nor instinctual, genetically pre-disposed.

Thinking, the unconscious that is – it would be excessive to specify it —begins as a laborious option to a physiological lack of orientation.

Try to think of an interruption (possible to think, unfortunately!) between the registration of the offer and its sanction by the child: thinking is arrested at cognition, and certainly not willingly. This is the power of the Freudian urge, or motion of the law of thinking.[3]

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – May 14, 2026

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Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[4]

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

[2] ‘A four-stroke start?’, p.82 in ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti – NeP edizioni Srls (2024)/ Collana ‘Nuovi Orizzonti di Inconscio e Società’. 

[3] ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri – SIC Edizioni (1996 e 1998).

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

Indifference to crying and not interest in the world.

In the photo: the white marble stones of the Carrara beach on the Tyrrhenian Sea.

To benefit from one’s calling[1] / 77.

It is even possible to observe the expenditure of energy that a newborn[2] decides to exert to reach the point of crying, and crying loudly, louder and louder, with a power of voice that surprises the adult, and is audible even at a significant distance.

But crying and screaming will not make them a stronger adult: on the contrary, more easily manipulatable by those who will allow them that saving of energy which smiling requires. Indifference to crying makes the crying cease and, with it, the interest in the world.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – May 5, 2026

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

[2] ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti/ NeP edizioni Srls (2024) – Chapter 3/ ‘A four-stroke start? p.82

An ironic interpretation of obsessive, self-referential ritualism.

In the photo: an ironic interpretation of obsessive, self-referential ritualism that crystallizes one’s thinking. A detail taken from the exhibition ‘Dal cuore alle mani’, by the Haute Couture Italian stylists ‘Dolce & Gabbana Srl’ (Milan, April – July 2024 at ‘Palazzo Reale’).

To benefit from one’s calling[1] / 76.

Everything begins as a justified attention to one's own thinking, then becomes an affection that crystallizes: not toward the Other, but toward one's own motion - surprising, indeed, and unique every time - toward the other:

Love for one's own Love, but no longer a favourable application of thinking in motion, that is, oriented.

Narcissism fails to grasp boredom, and remain sitting upon the crystal. 

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

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

envy and Goodness.

Don Quixote’s[1] illusions generally attribute a melancholy Goodness to the character: can envy be goodness?/ The puppet’s photo is taken from the Theater workshop of the ‘Compagnia Carlo Colla & Figli’, in Milan.

To benefit from one’s calling[2] / 75.  

 Envy arrogates an only presumed Goodness, which instead follows from a systematic Rush.

Even assuming a simultaneity, there is a difference in positions: that is, non-predictability, even some transcendence.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – March 30, 2026

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[1] ‘El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha’ is the successful novel by Miguel de Cervantes, published in 1605 with unexpected public success, making it - besides being perhaps the first modern novel - also the best-selling novel in history. It seems the protagonist was inspired by a Spanish nobleman for whom the author himself fought and was wounded in 1571, during the Battle of Lepanto.

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