Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens- 58:00Before Freud and Marx, Hegel designates the gap between what the will believes it wants and what it achieves.
Unconscious
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Summary
Dominique Pagani defines the psychic unconscious, which Freud posited and which caused a scandal, as a third term between thought and extension: "thoughts that I do not think and wills that I do not will"1. He distinguishes it from organic involuntary processes, which have long been known, and recalls that Rimbaud expresses it before Freud ("I is another") and that Hegel already anticipates it. For him, unconscious does not mean unknowable: the unconscious constantly expresses itself through slips of the tongue, parapraxes (the forgetting of "aliquis") and language, which says more than one thinks2. He also speaks of a linguistic and cultural unconscious, such as the AABA structure in music, distinct from Jung's collective unconscious. Following Clouscard, he posits an "unconscious of the unconscious", historical and class-based, which keeps the syntax of psychoanalysis but with a different content3 and which regulates the sexual unconscious, though not the other way round4. He illustrates it with Racine, Nerval and Wagner5.
- 1#6.1 Prelude: Lacan, “Function and field of speech and language”10 Nov 2019 · 40:52
- 2Marx on the Beach 1/21 Feb 2016 · 56:57
- 3#7 The Greeks, myth and music17 Dec 2020 · 25:27
- 4#2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams18 Apr 2021 · 10:38
- 5Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self2 Dec 2024 · 29:07
Summary produced automatically from 61 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
Cycle 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self
Cycle 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?- 1:54:22Klingsor, who does not appear to the outside world, can be taken for the unconscious: when he shows himself to the adversary, he is already lost.
Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?- 1:45:55Between res cogitans and res extensa, modernity discovers a third term: thoughts one does not think; there is also a class unconscious.
Cycle 11 · 22 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the world as “cunning of reason”- 55:17In Hegel, the image kept in the night of spirit is unconscious; the notion does not begin with Freud.
Cycle 11 · 14 Oct 2022Clouscard and the problem of Socrates
Cycle 10 · 10 Jun 2022#14 Caves of yesterday and today: from Plato to modernity- 56:31It is in addressing the other that aspects of oneself of which one was unaware are expressed; words say more than one thinks.
Cycle 10 · 24 Feb 2022#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war
Series · 6 Feb 2022The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner- 24:27Elsa is the unconscious, the involuntary in which the conscious and voluntary being of Lohengrin desires to resolve itself.
Series · 4 Oct 2021#4 Nomad and sedentary: the case of Nerval- 15:24Behind a disjointed text, the invariant of arrest insists on being heard, even if it means repeating itself.
Cycle 9.2 · 30 Jun 2021#9.24 “Ruled like music paper!” Nerval, Baudelaire (part 2)- 43:08The Senufo bird that transmits thought before it is consciously retained is a metaphor for the unconscious that expresses itself despite repression.
Cycle 9.2 · 28 Apr 2021#9.20 From signal to sign: Einstein
Series · 18 Apr 2021#2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams- 10:38The ideological cover of the class unconscious contains and regulates the sexual unconscious, without reciprocity.
Series · 31 Mar 2021Wagner and his interpreters, approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus?
Series · 17 Dec 2020#7 The Greeks, myth and music- 25:27Clouscard's unconscious of the unconscious keeps the syntax of psychoanalysis, displacement and condensation, with a different content.
Cycle 9.1 · 17 Dec 2020#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…- 1:26:37To the Freudian unconscious is added the Clouscardian unconscious, the unconscious of the unconscious, which reinforces in a prince the claim to an individuality beyond the ordinary.
Cycle 9.1 · 23 Oct 2020#2 Benefits and harms of amnesia…- 1:08:05Linguistic unconscious: language links dawn to doves through the whiteness of alba, without our knowing it.
Cycle 8 · 30 May 2020#9 Return to the logics of the subject
Cycle 7 · 17 May 2020#8 Harnessed to confinitude
Cycle 6 · 19 Feb 2020#6.5 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 14:27The return of the repressed rises like a balloon pushed under water, rarely calm and often in monstrous form.
Cycle 6 · 10 Nov 2019#6.1 Prelude: Lacan, “Function and field of speech and language”
Cycle 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)- 59:44He prefers to speak of a class unconscious, unconscious of the very unconscious of the psychoanalyst; knowing oneself comes at a cost.
Series · 5 Jul 2018Being and Code- 33:41The unconscious of the unconscious is the historical and class unconscious, more repressed still than the Freudian unconscious.
Cycle 4 · 14 Jun 2018#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:00:45Intentions that reveal themselves only in their fulfillment or their failure; the forgetting of "aliquis" shows a rigor down to the smallest detail.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 0:36Rimbaud expresses it before it is modeled by Freud: "I is another."
- 1:27:58Freud scandalizes by positing a psychic, no longer physical, unconscious: thoughts one does not think, wills one does not will.
- 1:55:02Modern synthesis: it is the unconscious that must be expressed, totality more than ever.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:19:50We move from the psychological Freudian unconscious to the historical order: the unconscious of the unconscious.
- 1:26:12Class unconscious: sexuality is determined by it, as the desire of Minos's daughters is determined by Theseus's heroic aura.
- 1:57:18Canons of beauty (paleness, tanning, weight) belong to class unconscious and valorize the liberating element.
Series · 2 Aug 2016With Clouscard- 45:50The unconscious of the unconscious: the Freudian unconscious is worked upon by a historical class unconscious, already present in Marx in the determined relations, independent of will.
Cycle 2 · 10 Mar 2016#2.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?
Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2- 9:13According to Clouscard, the Freudian unconscious has production, praxis, as its unconscious: class struggle is the core of the unconscious of the unconscious.
- 21:42Relations independent of the will play in Marx an underground role analogous to Freud's unconscious; involuntary and unconscious are here equivalent.
- 56:57Unconscious does not mean unknowable: it is proper to the inside to externalize itself, to express itself.
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 3/3- 53:17An unconscious of praxis, political and economic, precedes the Freudian unconscious: one does not willingly enter into relation with someone who has walked the streets.
Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:20:46Reflective judgment implies a theory of the unconscious: one does not know what one wants.
Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?
Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 10:41The linguistic unconscious of French speakers accounts for metaphors: the poet expresses more than he thinks.
Talks · 8 Aug 2015Mythology and truth
Talks · 26 Apr 2015The music of history
Series · 1 Jan 2015R for Reverie- 5:16In reverie, consciousness remains while the unconscious brings a richness of determination, because the censorship of active life relaxes.
Series · 29 Dec 2014O for Opposition- 8:00The Freudian unconscious has an unconscious, history and class struggle, as determining as individual problems.