Repression

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes up the Freudian notion of repression and transposes it into the historical field, where it helps him think absolute non-knowledge1. He holds that repression is necessary. It only becomes pathological when the subject no longer knows that he is repressing2. What is repressed does not disappear: like a ball pushed under water, it comes back up and hits you in the face3. He links repression to truth: if I repress, it is because I have seen the truth, and this is where its link with freedom comes from4. In Nerval, a truth that comes too close becomes unbearable, and one is then on the verge of awakening. In modernity, the repressing agency is no longer external, like the Church facing Galileo: it is within me. What we repress is first of all our own beginning, modernity itself. In 2023, he specifies that the first object of repression is internal determination, that is, everything that would alter the ideal image we have of ourselves5.

1. 1#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 20:10
2. 2#2 - Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude30 Mar 2020 · 46:27
3. 3#2 - Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude30 Mar 2020 · 36:27
4. 4#9 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 May 2020 · 47:51
5. 5"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 1:46:47

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