Displacement

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani borrows the notion of displacement from Freud and combines it with Spinoza: illusion is not a nothingness but a reality that is not in its place, a displaced reality in the Freudian sense1. From this he draws a thesis about religion, which is not an error but a displacement of truth; error itself is a displaced reality2. To illustrate the mechanism, he takes up an example from Freud: in a dream, trampling daisies amounts to trampling one's little sister Daisy, and the dream thus expresses a displaced truth3. He then applies this pattern to the era, which displaces its real problems just as a dream does. Fear of the apocalypse and resentment against industry take the place of a critique of capitalism4. Ecological threats, which he regards as real, also serve as the place where a misfortune is displaced whose cause is the crisis and the financialisation of the economy5.

1. 1Y comme Yonville8 Jan 2015 · 9:17
2. 2Marx Plage 1/21 Feb 2016 · 41:07
3. 3Education : le Beau s'apprend-il ?20 Jul 2018 · 1:02:19
4. 4#3.4 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:32:35
5. 5Y comme Yonville8 Jan 2015 · 11:16

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