Psychoanalysis

Season 13

What do perfumes, even the foul-smelling ones, teach us about sublimation, about modernity, and about man caught between the indeterminate and the determinate?

Season 13

Why can the essence of evil be defined as lying, that is, as a privation of self-knowledge?

Season 12

Why does the fixation on the mother, which the second act of Parsifal stages, make the past be lived as a present, and how does this illusion concern modernity?

Season 12

What does the separation of the Grail and the spear mean in the second act of Parsifal, and how can their reunion be understood as the passage from substance to subject?

Season 12

How can we think the contradiction within the subject, the negativity immanent to the self, and why do we repress it?

Season 11

How do Perceval, Parsifal and Siegfried figure hesitation, fascinated by sight or by hearing, and the passage to decision?

Pagani Parle Musique

What does music say when it says nothing, and how does instrumental music express what words dare not say?

Season 10

Why does "post-modern" thought, which claims descent from Nietzsche, deify nature and despise equality merely repeat the thesis of Callicles in Plato's Gorgias?

Analytical Reveries

Does the apparent randomness of Nerval's wanderings in Promenades et souvenirs conceal a necessity, that of mourning the mother and returning to origins?

Season 9.2

What grounds the determinability that the symbolic order brings out in Nerval's texts, and how does Nerval get out of the repetition of his fantasy?

Season 9.2

How can one cross the abyss between the natural sciences and the historical sciences, and how is it that statements drawn from language alone apply to the world?

Season 9.2

How does a mythic narrative such as Wagner's Ring, taken at its midpoint, reveal a rigorous logic, an "algebra" of gold and love, that the sciences of history and culture can bring out?

At the Tropiques bookshop

What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?

Season 7

What is lying, and how is lying to oneself related to ideology, repression, and negativity?

Season 7

What does the polarity of white and red in the poetic imagination, from Chrétien de Troyes to Mallarmé and Nerval, say about our modernity?

Season 7

If access to truth is irreversible, why does modern consciousness seek to flee it?

Season 7

Why does modern man's access to absolute knowledge come with a refusal to know, and how does this conflict between revolution and counter-revolution structure modernity?

Season 6

How do the death drive and the compulsion to repeat, as read in Freud and Lacan, shed light on the logic of the subject and on the reconstitution of Nazism?

Season 6

What is a logic proper to the subject, which exists only for, by and in a subject, and how does it differ from the logic of objects?

Other videos

Why is globalized, repetitive and binary music, broadcast everywhere since the 1950s, a music of enslavement and amnesia?

Season 5.1

How can we think both the order of nature and the order of freedom at once, and what makes negativity the principle of revolutionary thought?

Season 5.1

How does Rousseau open a sequence of revolutionary thought that leads to Lenin, and what dialectical thread runs through it?

Season 4

How is a rigorous, quasi-scientific reading of a literary text possible if an abyss separates the exact sciences from the field of human actions?

Season 4

In what sense is Nerval's quest for the mother, far from being a personal matter, connected to the universal, and what does modernity repress in its relation to art?

Season 2

How does the modern subject divide itself, and how does literature express the unconscious before Freud theorizes it?

Season 2

What path did the workshop "Between Crisis and War: Philosophizing?" follow, from the definition of philosophy to the passage to the philosophy of action?

Season 3

What relation does philosophy hold, in its principle, with politics?

Season 3

Can man free himself from the fatality of the return of carnage, figured by Ulysses, through the labor that transforms reality, figured by Daedalus?

Season 2

How does the reading of Phèdre, which joins the highest poetic beauty to the most profound content, lead from the psychological unconscious to class unconscious, and is there a universal criterion of beauty?

Hegel & Marx on the Beach

What does Marx mean when he affirms that men enter into relations of production independent of their will, and in what sense do these relations form "the unconscious of the unconscious"?

Season 1

What does Kant change by making the subject the legislator of knowledge, and why does this emancipation of the subject lead to the question of freedom?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Why does myth, which philosophy sought to set aside in favor of rational discourse, always come back, and what truth does it express?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What exactly does reverie mean, and what would an eleventh promenade of Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker look like?

A Philosophical Alphabet

Should one be against, with, or "against with": how can opposition be thought without falling into one-sidedness?