Interiorization

intériorisation

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Summary

Dominique Pagani links interiorization to the Hegelian Erinnerung, which is translated as "memory" but literally means "to make pass inside"1. He sees in it almost all artistic creation: making inward what first appeared as external. He contrasts it with architecture, caught in externality, and makes it the direction of the movement toward freedom, which leads from the empty Greek temple to the inner fervour of the cathedral; this movement is also a pain2. In Hegel, the spirit of destiny is the memory and interiorization of a spirit still externalized in Greek ethical life3. Speech plays a central role here: it brings the motionless thing into temporality and makes invisible within us what was external4. He finds the same motif in Rimbaud and Jean Paul, who express landscape through speech. In 2022 he specifies that the true opposition is not between inside and outside. He distinguishes three moments: the external is interiorized, then re-externalized in the form of a work5.

Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Cycle 10 · 10 Feb 2022#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?

1:24:52The true opposition is not interior and exterior but three moments: the interiorized exterior, then re-exteriorized in the form of a work.
2:26:43Expression places on the outside, on a surface, what was first mingled with interiority.

Cycle 9.1 · 24 Dec 2020#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia…

1:27:21Speech makes the motionless thing pass into temporality and interiorizes it; the word renders invisible within us what was external.

Cycle 8 · 30 Jul 2020#16 Return to the logics of the subject

36:07Erinnerung, translated as recollection, literally means to make pass inward: interiorization, which is opposed to architecture, sunk in exteriority.
50:07The spirit of destiny is recollection and interiorization of the spirit still exteriorized in Greek ethical life.

Cycle 5.2 · 2 May 2019#5.6 Nature or landscape?

20:18Everything we see is perhaps made to pass into us and be restored through speech: the interiorization of the exterior is the thread of the session.
31:56What Rimbaud and Jean Paul have in common: expressing the exterior, that is, the landscape, through speech.

Cycle 5.2 · 26 Mar 2019#5.5 Nature or landscape?

1:38:16The Hegelian Erinnerung, interiorization and remembrance, designates almost all artistic creation: interiorizing what first presented itself as exterior.

Cycle 1 · 28 Jan 2016#1.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

1:39:30The movement of meaning toward freedom is a movement toward interiorization: from the empty Greek temple to the cathedral of inner fervor; it is also a pain.