‘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