Thinking as a partner

“This does not mean we push criticism into the opposite doctrine and morality of undeceivement, that is, the solution of disinhabiting the inhabited earth as the only possible form of living.”[1]

To benefit from one’s calling / 33[2].

Inhabit one’s body, that’s a goal not so obvious as it’s not so obvious your partner[3], a small margin to pick up, it fits just right : until you can listen to what you say and that naive desire you wear as a habit, to dress up a lack that isn’t there. This is also why such work is called analytic.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – June 15, 2024

Illustrazione originale di Gianni Russomando[4]

[1] ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri – SIC Edizioni (1998), pg.72 

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

[3] “It is in a time-two that the other partner, or more than one, can be identified as a favourable physical presence because they allow to satisfy an ex-citement that would otherwise not be possible. Admitting someone as a partner into one’s own principle of pleasure – that is ‘conjugation’ – and processing it as ‘satisfaction’, is a unique and unremitting goal.”, from ‘Ereditare da un bambino. Perché no ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti (2014) Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso SpA ISBN 978-88-91081-63-6, pg. 28

[4] 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.”

‘Mechatronics Day. La meccatronica e le nuove generazioni… verso la quinta rivoluzione industriale’, Istituto S. Ambrogio ‘Salesiani Don Bosco’ and CNOS-FAP ‘Salesiani Don Bosco’, Via Copernico 9 Milano. In the photo, the cover with the program of the Conference which opened and ended the activities of the day.

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 32.

“The legislative competence of a Subject lies in making himself, or herself, the apparatus ‘ad-paratus’ to every satisfactory reception from the universe of all others.”[2]

Personally, I am in favour - from my own experience – of a basic learning of mechanics, a school subject to be favoured, and of an introduction of humanistic subjects that follows consolidated learning of different techniques of manual work.

I listened with pleasure from the direct voice of one of the intervened speakers at the ‘Mechatronics Day’ last May 9th, who encouraged professional specialization to ‘train in the supply-chain’ rather than aiming for the result of an absolute, isolated technical competence, as mechanical work was traditionally intended by preceeding generations and in some ways subservient to the object, limited in cultivating collaborations with others, even specialized ones. But what can it teach the most erudites a long and careful training on the lathe ?

First of all, this teaches that ‘thinking’ is not ‘rationalizing’ : in fact it is ‘rationalization’ that ‘serves’ one’s own thinking, in which the other-partner remains even in his, or her, physical absence as a  theoretical and experiential reference, because the experience which makes memory effective it is the experience with someone other-than-me who intervened on my behalf. As a matter of fact, we draw on favourable experience to overcome obstacles, on the lathe and in life.

In short, one’s own thinking maintains effectiveness and a specific entrepreneurial capacity, starting from the very original faculty, that is when doesn’t limit to rationalize, calculate, hypothesis without subsisting reality of relationships and slipping into a pathological subservience to Machine, or to Theory – the antinomy of ‘motionless motor’ - rather than maintaining that capacity for synthesis that is not at all innate but, from birth, immediately ready for use.

Technicians are then our excellent allies in science.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – May 28, 2024

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

[2] Cited from ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, by Giacomo B. Contri (1998) SIC Edizioni – ‘Preambolo’ p.72-73

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 31.

Therefore it is the perception iself that can be suspended, slowed down, even inhibited.

It occurs that everyone decides something even before it, having reached one’s brain, becomes a sensation : this is already a sanction to reality, and it makes memory of liking and acceptance (of unliking and rejection only if preceded by acceptance).

It is a crossroads that one’s thinking places, even a newborn is able to place it : should we blame him, or her ?

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – March 26, 2024

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

Original painting by Gianni Russomando[1]

To benefit from one’s calling [2] / 30.

“… the body, and above all its surface, is a place where external and internal perceptions can be generated simultaneously… By psychophysiology has been thoroughly illustrated the method by which, from the world of perceptions emerges the perception of one’s own body… ‘I’ is a corporeal entity first of all, not only a superficial entity, but also the projection of a surface.”[3]

In the perception of reality there is an assessment, because there is raw material that reality offers, and there is one's work. To the same work one’s thinking will come again to observe it, measure it, overcome it whenever one's making the reality usable requires it : here also lies that primary assessment, positive in that it is posited, which from the moment he, or she, is born processes, starting from a physiological synaesthesia[4], and then refine it into a perceptive differentiation, or suspend it, or inhibit it, without ever canceling it.

It is again an individual work the one that is necessary to a newborn for a progressive perceptive differentiation : as a matter of fact, they are subsequent progresses - or goals -  not pre-established phases from which one's work can never be erased. Any reactive formation hinders, without ever canceling however, the work that one’s thinking can draw on at every moment of life.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – March 17, 2024

[1] 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.” 

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

[3] ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S.Freud (1923) in OSF Vol.9 Bollati Boringhieri, p.488

[4] The presence of a neonatal synaesthesia seems today to leave no doubt, thanks also to an active university research : see for example ‘Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences’, by P. Walker, J. G. Bremner and others (2010 January) in ‘National Library of Medicine’.