Ambivalence

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani consistently distinguishes ambivalence from ambiguity. Ambiguity is conscious: it belongs to the "two-faced" person or the dissembler who hides his thoughts. Ambivalence, a term he takes from the Freudian field, is a contradiction that operates without the subject even knowing it12. He also describes it as objective: it is the thing that contradicts itself, at once the highest and the basest34. He makes it the key word in the philosophical assessment of Romanticism, which is capable of the best and the worst5, and extends it to the "German problem"6. Regarding Hölderlin, he notes that some people, for ideological reasons, made ambiguity out of his ambivalence. He illustrates it with the image of a segment painted red and blue, whose midpoint is violet. On one occasion he links it to Kantian amphiboly. In music, he finds it in Mozart, where sensuality and melancholy mingle, and in characters who pretend to be moved and perhaps end up more in love7.

1. 1Musicosophie 8. Bonheur et malheur en musique11 Jan 2021 · 2:04:47
2. 2Dominique Pagani - Qui se cache sous les surfaces ? Esthétique et politique20 May 2022 · 17:17
3. 3La religion de l'Argent29 Sept 2019 · 9:49
4. 4Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 37:06
5. 5Dominique Pagani - Qui se cache sous les surfaces ? Esthétique et politique20 May 2022 · 5:00
6. 6Musicosophie 10. Les deux Klemperer et Bruno Walter dans Wagner18 Jan 2021 · 10:57
7. 7MOZART PERVERS POLYMORPHE • Pagani Parle Musique1 Jun 2022 · 3:48

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