Primal scene

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani uses the notion of the primal scene in two registers. In 2020, in a Musicosophie session on the Greeks, myth and music, he shifts its meaning: the primal scene is not parental copulation but the heroic, collective, political and historical act1. He adds that Marx makes us prowl around the primal scene of our collective history2. In the sessions on Parsifal (2022 and 2024), he returns to a meaning closer to psychoanalysis: a scene, fantasised or real, that lies at the origin of trauma. Kundry takes Parsifal back to his conception and to maternal love3. She traces the primal scene in every direction, back to the eternity spent between the newborn and his mother4. In 2024, he distinguishes two primal scenes: the child on his bed of moss, then the vision of parental coitus, Gamuret ablaze before Herzeleide5.

1. 1Musicosophie 7. Les Grecs, le mythe et la musique17 Dec 2020 · 25:06
2. 2Musicosophie 7. Les Grecs, le mythe et la musique17 Dec 2020 · 57:06
3. 3L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 1:20:19
4. 4La matrice de toute illusion : le passé vécu comme présent4 Jun 2024 · 1:52:55
5. 5La matrice de toute illusion : le passé vécu comme présent4 Jun 2024 · 2:06:07

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.