Jeanne d'Arc

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani does not devote a sustained analysis to Joan of Arc: she appears in his sessions as a reference figure whom he calls upon from time to time. He first uses her as a counter-model for reading Antigone, who is not, in his view, a "Greek Joan of Arc" standing against a totalitarian city1. He also recalls her as the subject of a dispute between the parish priest and the schoolteacher, that is, as a figure claimed by two opposing camps2. In a session on femininity and puritanical censorship, he cites her among warrior women, alongside Jeanne Hachette3. When commenting on Villon's ballad, he points her out as the real woman mingled with the poem's other female figures4. Finally, in connection with the Grail quest, he mentions her as the Maid, a figure of virginal whiteness5. These mentions, scattered from 2020 to 2024, link her in turn to tragedy, to the quarrel between the Church and the secular school, to medieval poetry and to the symbolism of purity.

1. 1#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020 · 35:41
2. 2Musicosophie 8. Bonheur et malheur en musique11 Jan 2021 · 1:44:24
3. 3Le féminisme des privilégiés, censure puritaine de la féminité - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner6 Feb 2022 · 14:15
4. 4L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 5:29
5. 5La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 1:28:02

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