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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani almost always mentions Circe in passing, as a stage in Ulysses's voyage: a port of call, a stopover, a moment in his wanderings12. He cites her in very different contexts: a session on Freud, a prelude devoted to Lacan, the interview introducing the future workshops, a session during lockdown, a workshop on Nerval and Baudelaire, and a reflection on rootedness and migration that runs from Hölderlin to war. In 2017, he counts her among the women of the islands who hold the hero back and recalls that she turns his companions into swine3. In 2021, he speaks of one of Ulysses's "idylls"4. In 2023, he places her alongside the Cyclops among the stages of the return5. That same year, in a session on worldliness in Clouscard, he takes up the phrase "the tyrannical Circe" from "Le Voyage", who changes men into beasts6. The passages do not develop the character any further.

1. 1#6.1-1/2 - Prélude • D.Pagani / Lacan : Fonction et champs de la parole et du langage10 Nov 2019 · 1:16:20
2. 2L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 45:58
3. 3Freud1 Aug 2017 · 58:41
4. 49 #24 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Nerval • Baudelaire • 2ème partie30 Jun 2021 · 1:23:07
5. 5Racines ou migration ? De la rêverie analytique à l'actualité, de Hölderlin à la guerre17 Feb 2023 · 9:48
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le choc des mondes ?9 Jul 2023 · 1:00:59

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.