Thinking as a partner

Unconscious does not disdain planning.

“For a long time I’ve thought that the oldest empty idea was the Platonic one ‘The Good’, then that of istinct, but then I thought it was that of impotence like a curse on one’s thinking.”[1]

To benefit from one’s calling [2] / 59.

Any budget forecast, or properly budget, calls for investments: but, and in the emergencies – when primarily the human is regarded – where decisions must be rapid, focused ?

Here, a ‘trained’ unconscious – not surprisingly Freud translated the unconscious as ‘urge’ for the British audience[3]  - offers memory of everything that conscience daily stops assuming that the available resources are limited, and with an attitude that can slide everywhere, phallic against every conviction but comforting at best: masochism, that is.

Whatever they say, unconscious does not disdain planning at all, because avoiding redundancy - and then waste - of the potential at goal.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – August 29, 2025  

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Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[4]

[1] Cited from ‘THINK!’, by Giacomo B. Contri - ‘L’antica idea vuota’/ May 23 – 24, 2020.

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

[3] ‘S.Freud : Interview for the BBC British Broadcasting Corporation radio - December 7, 1938’.

[4] Gianni Russomando, short biography : “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.”

Translation-without-betrayal.

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 58.

“The first wealth is thinking (or principle of pleasure, or ‘urge’): thinking is meta-physics, which Freud called meta-psychology."[2]

Painting can be like the ‘lapsus’, or the night-dream : meta-physics of thinking, or better meta-psychology from Freud onwards.

But only when allowing translation-without-betrayal. 

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – August 12, 2025

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Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[3]

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

[2] Cited from ‘THINK!’ by Giacomo B. Contri - November 12, 2014.

[3] Gianni Russomando : “born in Vercelli (1956), graduated at the ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, I can describe me as an ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter), so then far from expositions and competitions.”

Healing is not a difficult concept.

In the above photo: Shangai 1949, children rescued by ‘China Welfare’ ap-prehend to read from comic booklets. Detail taken from the photographic exhibition ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson. Cina 1948-1949/1958’ February 18 – July 3, 2022/ MUDEC Museo Delle Culture, Milan.

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 57.

“Healing is not a difficult concept: someone is healed when he, or she, no longer says: “Poor child!”[2]  

‘By means of’ only indicates that someone has used himself, or herself, as a ‘means’ to my own law for “love, thinking, freedom”; in conscience it is very difficult to recognize that, here it is removal.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – July 25, 2025

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

[2] Cited from ‘THINK!’ by Giacomo B. Contri – November 19, 2014

From the sanction we apprehend.

In the photo: Shangai 1949, children and adults ap-prehend from posters on street. Detail taken from the photographic exhibition ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson. Cina 1948-1949/1958’ February 18 – July 3, 2022/ MUDEC Museo Delle Culture, Milan.

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 56.

“… love, thinking, freedom are not subject of the law because they make it:

they make that basis of any law which I call ‘realm of appointment’.” [2]

From the sanction – given, received – on love, thinking, freedom, we apprehend: here it is the ‘realm of appointment’, no longer unconscious , that is.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – July 16, 2025

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

[2] Cited from ‘THINK!’ by Giacomo B. Contri – November 25, 2014.