city (or Desert)/ 1.

even the removal is a defense, so weak indeed.

“It is well known that we have restored to perversion its right of citizenship." [1]

Without even naming it, the very weak defense of neurotic removal is brought into play: perversion laughs at both partner and partnership (and perversion does not exist, by the gods).

Therefore, the defense.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – July 25, 2026

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[1] Cited by ‘Jacques Lacan. Il seminario. Libro VII. L’etica della psicoanalisi 1959 – 1960’. Testo stabilito da Jacques-Alain Miller, traduzione di Maria Delia Contri, a cura di Antonio Di Ciaccia/ pg.229