Feminine

féminin

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Summary

Dominique Pagani first distinguishes the man-woman pair, which is cultural and historical, from the natural male-female distinction1. In Hegel, he links femininity to the family, which gives the citizen existence, while the city gives him his essence2. There it is also "the eternal irony of the community," which alters the universal aim through intrigue3. He then associates the feminine with music: according to Wagner, the eternal feminine of Goethe's Faust stands for the spirit of music, which hovers with nothing weighing it down and guides toward deliverance4. It is not the ancient feminine of Helen but the modern woman, the sinner, who delivers Faust5. He also cites Schiller, who sees in women the spontaneous union of the spiritual and the sensuous6. In Wagner, the true feminine must free the world once masculine egoism has been broken7. Regarding Parsifal, he stresses that the Grail separated from the spear, and so the feminine separated from the masculine, loses its efficacy8. Likewise, the virgin who remains a virgin stays sterile, pure but without fertility9.

Summary produced automatically from 12 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Season 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject

56:59As long as the virgin remains a virgin, she is sterile: purity without fecundity, white not yet reddened.

Season 12 · 21 Apr 2024Saving the saviour? Redemption, the end of the cycle or its new beginning?

37:54The Grail separated from the spear, the feminine separated from the masculine, loses its efficacy.
1:16:56The spear is also what wounds, the Grail what collects and soothes.

Series · 6 Feb 2022The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner

28:43For Wagner, the true feminine must bring liberation to the world, once masculine egoism is broken.

Season 9.2 · 14 Apr 2021#9.19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation (part 2)

34:18Wagner discovers in Psyche the true feminine, which must bring liberation by breaking male egoism.

Series · 7 Apr 2021#1 Mignon, or the song of silence

1:00:55It is not the antique feminine of Helen but the modern woman, the sinner, who delivers Faust.
1:03:19The eternal feminine embodies the spirit of music, which hovers without weighing on anything and guides toward deliverance.

Series · 25 Mar 2021#18 What is musical in music

26:45The eternal feminine that draws us onward designates, according to Wagner, the spirit of music.
34:54Schiller recognizes in women the spontaneous union of the spiritual and the sensible.

Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 2/5

1:22:54Man-woman is a cultural and historical distinction, not the natural male-female distinction.
1:42:13The city gives the citizen his essence; the family, embodied by femininity, gives him his existence.

Series · 24 Dec 2014J for Jeunesse (Youth)

3:25In Hegel, femininity, eternal irony of the community, alters the universal aim through intrigue.