Blanchefleur

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Blanchefleur only through the episode of the drops of blood on the snow, in the story of Perceval. Depending on the session, he presents her as Perceval's beloved, his fiancée or his future wife, with whom Perceval has spent a night1. He points out that her very name speaks of whiteness2. Above all, he notes that when Perceval sees the blood fallen on the snow, he sees Blanchefleur's face, crimson on white3: the drops remind him of her cheeks4. The scene comes back in several contexts. In 2022, it appears in a session on the aporias of anthropology, then in a session on hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight, where he compares Perceval with Siegfried. In 2024, he takes it up again in a session devoted to the past lived as present, defined as the matrix of all illusion5. From one session to the next, he describes Blanchefleur in the same way. What changes are the questions to which he links the scene.

1. 1L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 12:52
2. 2#6 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude26 Apr 2020 · 26:34
3. 3L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 19:08
4. 4LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:07:49
5. 5La matrice de toute illusion : le passé vécu comme présent4 Jun 2024 · 1:07:06

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.