Original painting by Gianni Russomando[1]

To benefit from one’s calling [2] / 30.

“… the body, and above all its surface, is a place where external and internal perceptions can be generated simultaneously… By psychophysiology has been thoroughly illustrated the method by which, from the world of perceptions emerges the perception of one’s own body… ‘I’ is a corporeal entity first of all, not only a superficial entity, but also the projection of a surface.”[3]

In the perception of reality there is an assessment, because there is raw material that reality offers, and there is one's work. To the same work one’s thinking will come again to observe it, measure it, overcome it whenever one's making the reality usable requires it : here also lies that primary assessment, positive in that it is posited, which from the moment he, or she, is born processes, starting from a physiological synaesthesia[4], and then refine it into a perceptive differentiation, or suspend it, or inhibit it, without ever canceling it.

It is again an individual work the one that is necessary to a newborn for a progressive perceptive differentiation : as a matter of fact, they are subsequent progresses - or goals -  not pre-established phases from which one's work can never be erased. Any reactive formation hinders, without ever canceling however, the work that one’s thinking can draw on at every moment of life.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – March 17, 2024

[1] Gianni Russomando, biographical note : “I’m born in Vercelli (1956), graduated at the ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, I describe myself as an ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter) and far from expositions and competitions.” 

[2] www.tutorsalus.net/index.php/en/pensare-da-partner-2/358-psychoanalyst-and-profession-1

[3] ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S.Freud (1923) in OSF Vol.9 Bollati Boringhieri, p.488

[4] The presence of a neonatal synaesthesia seems today to leave no doubt, thanks also to an active university research : see for example ‘Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences’, by P. Walker, J. G. Bremner and others (2010 January) in ‘National Library of Medicine’.