Psyche

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani presents the psyche as a fundamental category of Michel Clouscard. It belongs neither to the psychologist nor to the psychoanalyst, but to the order of feeling1. He defines it as the interiority of the soul and the heart, which he distinguishes from thought, since thought already belongs to the understanding2. Under this term Clouscard gathers everyday lived experience, the concrete and what is now vaguely called "affect", that is, what seems furthest from production even though it is its product34. Modes of production thus generate forms of the psyche: the epic or courtly love, the Corneillian or Racinian hero5. The psyche takes shape slowly, from the early Middle Ages to the bourgeois world, which carries it across a threshold; Rousseau holds both praxis and psyche together67. Clouscard seeks to reconcile the two. In the session on Hölderlin, Dominique Pagani describes the psyche as the dotted line that ensures continuity between a vanished collective and one yet to come8. According to him, claiming the psyche also means rehabilitating a certain romanticism against Sollers's libertinism9.

1. 1#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014 · 11:03
2. 2Entretien avec Dominique Pagani, praxis et psyché27 Mar 2023 · 3:15
3. 3EVERYTHING'S ALLOWED, BUT NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68, French Theory & Capitalism14 Jul 2021 · 26:19
4. 4[ENTRETIEN] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard et la trahison de mai 687 Feb 2025 · 17:33
5. 5#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014 · 16:28
6. 6Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 37:12
7. 7Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 1:37:37
8. 8Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 1:17:34
9. 9Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 219 Jun 2016 · 30:08

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.