Aperite portas[1].

“A pleasure that cannot be felt as such.”[2]

“…The dominant feeling was that of having arrived late: when the most important thing had already happened. The wonderful time was ‘the one before’[3]…”

”Neurosis - which Freud identified as a pathological removal of the individual's orientation toward the principle of pleasure - technically makes use of enchantment, or spellbinding, to always push things a little further, to postpone in the ‘space’ and, above all, in the ‘time’ the work of thinking, and consequently the judgement which guides the individual…”

“In children psychopathology, the gradual work to build thinking comes to a pathological halt when no new representation can replace the previous one, which represents one’s urge (or ‘law of motion’ in one’s thinking ‘nature’ – editor's note): our thinking elaboration gets caught up, stopping on the previous representation, which cannot be replaced because the displeasure would be too deep.” [4]

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio - June 23, 2020

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[1] “Aperite Portas Redemptori” is the title which the pope Johannes Paulus II chose for the Bull of Indiction of Jubilee for the 1950° anniversary of the Redemption, January 6 - 1983. Here we mean as follows: “Open the doors to thinking”.

[2]‘Aldilà del principio di piacere’, S. Freud (1920) Bollati Boringhieri, OSF Vol.9 p.184

[3] ‘La penombra che abbiamo attraversato’, Lalla Romano (1964) Ed. Einaudi

[4] ‘Inherit from a child. Why not ?’ Marina Bilotta Membretti (2024) NeP edizioni Srls/ p.10; p.32.