Talks · 16 Jan 2021The World Before, The World After - Part 2- 18:04The fantasy of ingestion, poisoning and injection, rooted especially in the middle classes, explains the permanent preoccupation with the body, more unconscious than rational.
Fantasy
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What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani approaches fantasy as the subject's projection onto the external world. Taken at the surface, this world becomes a screen onto which the subject projects himself while believing he is dealing with objects1. In the session on Adotevi and negritude, he identifies, at the root of anthropology, a Freudian investment in the purity of the native. In his view, nothing is more "fantasy-generating" than the narrative of origins2. The white man's fantasmatics thus attributes contradictory qualities to the African: the innocence of the child and bestial cruelty3. He also points to a fantasmatic element in discourses on nature, which belongs to the symbolic field: mother earth, Gaia, Cybele4. In Rousseau, he traces a progression in the text that moves from reality towards fantasy, as far as the prenatal world5. In 2021, he applies the notion to the present. The fantasy of ingestion, poisoning and injection, rooted mainly in the middle classes, explains in his view a constant preoccupation with the body that is more unconscious than rational6.
- 1Racine4 Feb 2019 · 1:24:09
- 2Négritude et négrologues / Adotevi par Pagani (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 44:47
- 3Négritude et négrologues / Adotevi par Pagani (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 52:03
- 4Racine4 Feb 2019 · 1:20:46
- 5Racine4 Feb 2019 · 1:37:04
- 6Monde d'avant, Monde d'après - 2e partie16 Jan 2021 · 18:04
Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The World Before, The World After - Part 2
Season 5.2 · 4 Feb 2019#5.4 Nature or Landscape?- 1:20:46Discourses on nature have a fantasmatic component belonging to the symbolic field: the mother earth, Gaia, Cybele.
- 1:24:09The external world, taken as surface, is a screen onto which the subject projects itself while believing it is dealing with objects.
- 1:37:04Rousseau's text follows a progression from reality toward fantasy, up to the prenatal world.
Talks · 8 Jun 2017Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)