Commitment.   

Who, then, is doing the work?

                        

In the photo: ‘Self-portrait in front of the wall of the house’ (1926), Edvar Munch/ Oslo, Munch Museum.

 

 

To benefit from one’s calling[1] /70. 

 

Unconscious cannot put to work consciousness which, moreover, takes great care not to admit the unconscious. Who, then, is doing the work?

Despite any doubts about it, whoever was satisfied will have worked[2] to pass to ‘I’. 

 

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – January 26, 2026

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

[2] ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S. Freud (1921) OSF Bollati Boringhieri Vol. 9° pp.482-484