The writing advice of semiotician Roland Barthes

This famous Decalogue of the great French semiotician was published in the Corriere della Sera 29 May 1969 and it is repeated in Writings. Society, text, communication, edited by G. Brown (Einaudi, Torino 1998, p. 433)

Since writing is not scientific or regulatory action, I can not say why or for what you write. I can only enumerate the reasons why I imagine writing:

1) for a need to please you, as we all know, It is connected to the erotic rapture;

2) because writing decentralizes the word, the individual, person; It performs a job whose origin is indiscernible;

3) to implement a "gift", meet distinctive activity, make a difference;

4) to be recognized, gratified, amato, disputed, found;

5) to fulfill commitments or ideological counter-ideological;

6) to obey the injunctions of a secret type, distribution of a fighter, for continuous assessment;

7) to meet friends, irritate enemies;

8) to help crack the symbolic system of our society;

9) to produce new ways, ie new forces, to gain control of things in a new way, to shake and change the enslavement of the senses;

10) Finally, as appears from the multiplicity and contradiction from the deliberate release of these reasons, to evade the idea, the idol, the fetish of determination Unica, the Cause (causality and "good cause"), and credit so the higher value of pluralistic activity, no causality, or general purpose, it is precisely the text.