Strawberries

reason and non reason. 

“ ‘Where we are at’ is equivalent to saying ‘where we were at’: who ever said it ?...

It’s a question that denotes the whole civilization, starting from ‘changing subject’: this ‘subject’ is the opening one, and the first, perhaps the second session (of psychoanalytic work/ editor’s note) is enough. Man means to move: ‘I don’t play anymore if the tree is not known by its fruit!’ It’s not even worth starting…

Law is the realm of appointment, the existing is the product of the realm of appointment…   

The realm of appointment is ‘drop this topic, this subject’…

Psychoanalysis ‘has’ a source, and not ‘is’ a source”.[1]

Psychopathology and its damage, have no reasons: their ‘non-reason’ is evident and clear, and can only be dropped. But the crossroads remains crucial between ‘reason’ and ‘non-reason’: the issue is about the advantage, first and foremost an economic one, of ‘reason’.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – June 10, 2025

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[1] Cited from ‘Conclusione: A che punto siamo’, by Giacomo B. Contri – June 21, 2014 / Symposium ‘La prima rappresentanza’, organized by ‘Società Amici del Pensiero Sigmund Freud’ – Milan.

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.

‘Diamanti’[1], by Ferzan Özpetek [2].

How much could have worked a man who gets to sanction his father mistake so civilly, lucidly, inexorably ?

Work immediately presents not so easy, not comforting paths : but only work can offer concluding goals, and not to expose to madness however decorated. Özpetek lands on directing not without having fought and been wounded : but he reaches the finish line of his very recent ‘Diamanti’ with a feeling of commotion, without victorious emphasis. The old costume designer lady admits well the real mistake of her life in having trusted - or not - on istinct: simply because istinct doesn’t exist, the character realized it too late, but with an unsuspected recovery and with no foregone conclusions. Nothing human can free oneself from a judgement on the reality offered, inevitable like a date.

Alberta - right she – as an icy, talented co-owner of an excellent small Haute Couture tailoring workshop, knows how to carry the relay to the finish line high, careful as she is described in recognizing, clearly and without deviations, the appointments of life even when these are not easy, nor reassuring.

And “Pink buttons…!” remains the most controversial line of the film, but disentanglable for anyone who gets to work on it: absolutely not a warning, nor a threat.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – February 4, 2025

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[1] ‘Diamanti’ (2024), subject and direction by Ferzan Özpetek. Among the interpreters : Stefano Accorsi, Luca Barbarossa, Geppi Cucciari, Anna Ferzetti, Milena Mancini, Vinicio Marchioni, Paola Minaccioni, Luisa Ranieri, Carmine Recano, Elena Sofia Ricci, Lunetta Savino, Vanessa Scalera, Jasmine Trinca, Mara Venier, Milena Vukotic.

[2] Ferzan Özpetek (Istanbul, 1959) moved to Rome, not without disagreements with his father, getting to graduate in  ‘Storia del Cinema’ at ‘Sapienza’ University while attending the courses of Direction at the ‘Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica’ and the courses of ‘Storia dell’Arte e del Costume’ at the ‘Accademia di Costume e di Moda’ and also beginning to work in theatre. He started in cinema as an assistant director with ‘Scusate il ritardo’ (1983): then director he himself in ‘Hamam’ (1997), ‘Harem Suare’ (1999), ‘Le fate ignoranti’ (2000), ‘La finestra di fronte’ (2003), ‘Un giorno perfetto’ (2008), ‘Mine vaganti’ (2010), ‘Allacciate le cinture’ (2014), ‘Rosso Istanbul’ (2017) and in other films unti ‘Diamanti’ (2024), for many of which he received recognition from public and critics : he is also author of the subject in most of his work. He directed lirics works too, for events like ‘Maggio Fiorentino’, and for the ‘San Carlo’ theater in Naples.

The adoration of a Theory.

“it’s religion the golden calf too, because its gold is no longer available as now its gold is sequestered in a Heaven that makes the image of a calf by then purely religious itself, although a pure religion opposes it: the adoration of a Theory stays consistent:

the model remains religious even when you preach that to know reality you need to turn to science (which is not religion at all)”[1]

Disregarding the reliability of the offered, appointments of life, one’s thinking moves away from sovereignty: perhaps sovereignty – which is not sovereignism at all – it’s not good for everyone. 

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – January 26, 2025

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[1] Introduction by Giacomo B. Contri and Maria Delia Contri, Symposium 2012-2013 ‘La Cattedra del pensiero – Cinque simposi: il laico’, organized by ‘Società Amici del pensiero – Sigmund Freud’ Milan.