Ulysse

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani makes Ulysses the figure of repetition. He reads the Odyssey as a circle that runs from one slaughter to another: the sack of Troy, which the ingenious Ulysses himself brought about with the trick of the horse, then the massacre of the suitors on his return to Ithaca12. He describes this journey as an omega-shaped loop around the Mediterranean3. For him, the wandering is a detour to evade aggressiveness: at each stop, with a Nausicaa, a Circe or a Calypso, Ulysses thinks he has escaped, but the slaughter always catches up with him45. In the seminar on Nerval's Angélique, which runs "from Ulysses to Daedalus", he sets the ingenious man against the engineer and gives the journey the same structure as Nerval's voyage, in which the abbé de Bucquoy plays the role of Ithaca. From 2023 on, he presents Ulysses as the first Western hero, the founding figure of Western violence67. He also mentions him, bound to the mast, in connection with the relation between song and speech.

1. 1#4.0 Dominique Pagani, Présentation de l'atelier 2017-2018 : "Angélique" de Nerval24 Sept 2017 · 11:33
2. 2#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 1:05:46
3. 3#6.1-1/2 - Prélude • D.Pagani / Lacan : Fonction et champs de la parole et du langage10 Nov 2019 · 1:13:32
4. 4#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 11:29
5. 5L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 45:58
6. 6Racines ou migration ? De la rêverie analytique à l'actualité, de Hölderlin à la guerre17 Feb 2023 · 8:37
7. 7TROP TARD ?14 Aug 2024 · 1:10:49

Summary produced automatically from 45 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.