It’s simple/ 9.

Between obsessive neurosis and psychosis.

                                                                                                                                           "I am comparing 'reward' with 'satisfaction': Freud called 'urge'—which means nothing other than 'thinking'—the legal agency that promotes each of us and advises what to do... I equate the 'non-nocence' (non-harmfulness that is) of an act with a work that does not recognize 'reward' but recognizes 'satisfaction', and this means to revisit one’s thinking when proving to have been 'satisfied' and can thus begin to 'desire' again, that’s what 'urge' is." (Cited from the ‘Prolusione’ by Giacomo B. Contri - October 26, 2019 at the Symposium ‘Potere e innocenza’ 2019 - 2020 organized by ‘Società Amici del Pensiero Sigmund Freud’, Milan.)

Let us approach 'reward', apparently harmless, but on which psychosis greedily feeds: ‘jouissance’ without direction that deceives and deviates toward laziness—always secondary—of psychosis.

Between obsessive neurosis, which something allows for 'work', and psychosis, which simulates ‘work’, there is a short and rapid, never automatic step.

Right at this crossroads one’s analytical work finds some shelter, albeit fragile and even threatened. 

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – April 8, 2026

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