Thinking as a partner

In the photo, the cover of ‘Tratti in salvo’ by Vittorio Giardino (Rizzoli Lizard – Mondadori Libri SpA, 2022).

To benefit from one’s calling [1] / 43.

“Without the im-prudence of an improvised economist, I restrict myself to observe the economic behaviour of ‘homo pathologicus’ as ‘homo anti-oeconomicus’. Such is the man of the Institution of the Object , whose anti-economic behaviour I describe according these three kinds of damage. 1 ceasing profit, 2 emerging damage, 3 non emerging profit. ”[2]

‘Homo anti-oeconomicus’ just has to go back to the crossroads between ‘emerging damage’ and ‘ceasing damage’, which however did not occur to conscience… And pathology, which already doesn’t make a difference between ‘damage’ and ‘profit’ – is always in a hurry and doesn’t try out, doesn’t test and doesn’t put to the test the distance between ‘emerging damage’ and ceasing damage’.

It is instead the solid brick of the ‘ceasing damage’ – immediately removed in the fog of pathology, it is ready to trip – the ony one to be able to be the basis of a solution that hooks.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – December 21, 2024

Defender of salus.

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

[2] ‘A chi non ha sarà tolto. Economia e psicopatologia’ – Parag. ‘Economia’, Giacomo B. Contri p. 33 SIC Edizioni online (2010)

The analysis of daily investments.

Shangai, 1948: Civilians crowd in front of the closed door of the bank. Detail of a photo by Henri Cartier Bresson, MUDEC Milano – ‘Henri Cartier Bresson. Cina 1948 – 1949’ (18.02 – 03.07.2022)

To benefit from one’s calling[1] / 42.

"One of the most legendary terms in our terminological battery is that of ‘giving up of urges’, carried out by means of what is technically called representation in the opposed way, representation by opposition. In fact, it is not a question of giving up, but of saving, stockpiling, discouragement of unproductive investment…”[2]

Even naivety doesn’t allow you to ‘give up urges’, but it opens to a crossroads : to recognize that investing in someone who deceived you has proven unproductive.

The analysis of one’s investments either is daily bread or remains naivety.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – December 12, 2024

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

[2] Cited from ‘La tolleranza del dolore. Stato, Diritto, Psicoanalisi’, Giacomo B. Contri (1977) SIC Edizioni p. 29

Before perception.

What we perceive may not coincide with what we imagined we would feel.[1]

“Then the negative talent, or non-claim   (‘claim’ is a legal concept) which is the formal condition of the law (law of the motion - editor’s note), consists in making a good not an object, but a negative component of the law itself, to have no-say…  without abolishing oneself as reality (indeed as a condition for not abolishing oneself as a reality).”[2]

“… only what has already once been perception ‘c’ can become conscious.”[3]

To benefit from one’s calling[4]/ 41.

The unconscious does not exist before the reality, that is one’s unconscious doesn’t exist before what was perceived.

The existence of the unconscious is a faculty of humans, and not a claimable right, not an automatism : it is the faculty to sanction what is perceived, with pleasure – that remains the primary, or reference sanction – or displeasure, and it remains a faculty even when you resist to it, removing or diverting the sanction to something else and Others not implicated, with damages and pathology.

But at last is up to one’s removed thinking – as it refers only to the perceived – to fish out in the memory all the work done in vain to deviate or remove a very precious and wasted sanction, indelible for life as the perceived one.

Psychoanalysis doesn’t need fantasies.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – September 13, 2024

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[1] In the picture : a detail from the anthological exhibition of Robert Doisneau (1912 - 1994) at the ‘Museo Diocesano’ of Milan, May 9 – October 15, 2023. (At care of Gabriel Bauret, promoted by ‘Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e  Rovigo’, and produced by ‘Silvana Editoriale’ with the patronage of the Municipality of Milan, with contributions of ‘Fondazione Banca Popolare di Milano’ and ‘Fondazione Fiera Milano’).

[2] Cit. da : ‘Costruzione (della norma fondamentale della legge del moto)’ p. 99 in ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri SIC Edizioni (1998).

[3] Cit. da : ‘L’Io e l’Es’, S. Freud 1922 - OSF Bollati Boringhieri (2020) Vol. 9 p.483 

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

Cultivate.

Cultivating is an excellent name for ‘work’, as well for the craftsman as for the researcher : however calling a landscape ‘anthropized’ does not highlight the profit that results from the work itself.

Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[1]

To benefit from one’s calling[2] / 40.

“There is a condition for one to be able, as well as necessary, to talk about imputability, a condition that should make blush the ignorance with which our Culture is sick, and which it propagates : that of knowing that the concept of imputability is not only or primarily a penal concept but also, and above all, a reward concept (in order, they are attributable : merit, sin, crime).”[3]

‘Work' is rewarding, as anyone who is admitted to it knows.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – August 26, 2024

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[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] Cit. da : ‘Una psicologia amica’, Giacomo B. Contri p. 10 in ‘La Città dei malati’ – Maria Antonietta Aliverti, Raffaella Colombo, Giacomo B. Contri, Maria Delia Contri, Marina Massimi, Giorgio Moretti SIC Edizioni 1994