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How to condemn your removal ?

“Thus begins one’s thinking, between the first neonatal period and the first two years of life. We are hypo-endowed, our felix physiological lacuna… In the time of two years a child comes into the power on which all social bonds are based: it’s not innate in us the ‘social grammar’. The construction of a sentence is completely power of children, thanks above all to their neurological functions. This degree of power remains unsurpassed, having obeyed calling, not command. ”[1]

“Why on earth do you think I’m mad at you…? – the father interrupted me at this point  - Did I perhaps scold or hit you ? Oh, yes. You hit me, Hans corrected. It’s not true. And when ? This morning, the little boy admonished and his father remembered that Hans with his head had unexpectedly hit him in the stomach and he, reflexively, had hit him with his hand. It was interesting that he didn’t relate this detail with the neurosis.”[2]

“Freud makes Hans want to condemn his own removal, it is ineffective and maintains anguish, to instead work out a solution favourable to him, therefore with a surplus that wasn’t there before: defense from aggression to wish, without anguish. Defense itself will produce satisfaction, and not just the disappearance of the phobia.”[3]

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – March 3, 2025

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[1] Cited from the Prolusion November 14. 2015 by Giacomo B. Contri to the Symposium ‘Il potere. Chi può’ 2015 – 2016 organized by ‘Società Amici del pensiero – Sigmund Freud’, Milan.

[2] Cited from ‘Il Piccolo Hans’, S.Freud ‘Un. Econ. Feltrinelli’, p.127  

[3] Cited from ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’,  Marina Bilotta Membretti (2024) p. 123 NeP edizioni Srls/ Preface by Luciana La Stella – Postface by Giuseppe Oreste Pozzi.