It’s simple/ 7.

Resistance and duty.

“A lapsus, more simply, offers one’s thinking as a legislator: ‘I had to say a person’s name, and I pronounced another’s name!’… He, or she, had removed his own, or her own, thinking and this resurfaces in the lapsus: how powerful the unconscious is! …But you can deny your lapsus, which is the ‘first’ as preceding my intention: the temptation is to become independent from one’s own thinking… or rather cancel thinking.” [1]

“Resistance to one’s own individual competence, as a legal capacity to modify reality with respect to the principle of pleasure, makes no effective defense possible.” [2]

This is not a mistake: in a lapsus your thinking understood well enlightening profitfully the conscience which, having done one’s own duty, would not know what else to do. 

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

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[1] Cited from ‘Prolusione’ by Giacomo B. Contri – October 7, 2017 Symposium ‘La prima costituzione’, organized by ‘Società Amici del Pensiero Sigmund Freud’, Milan.

[2] Cited from p. 38 ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’, Marina Bilotta Membretti (2024) Preface by Luciana La Stella - Postface by Giuseppe Oreste Pozzi / NeP edizioni Srls - Rome. See also ‘Precisazioni sui due principi dell’accadere psichico’, S. Freud (1911) OSF Bollati Boringhieri, Vol. 6