Symbol

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani distinguishes the symbol from comparison. Comparison is binary and remains tied to the real. The symbol, by contrast, does not give the thing compared: it keeps a mystery, like surplus value, and presupposes a third term to be sought, in the manner of reflective judgement12. In the human domain, he places the sense-sign pair before the cause-effect pair of the natural sciences. The unconscious therefore expresses itself symbolically rather than causally, and the economic is always lived in displaced form, as religion or identity34. In Freud, he points to transcultural symbols, such as high and low or the erection of the signs of power; Mime's sword is one example5. Desire, first names and the sunset belong to the symbolic field: "we think we are in the real, we are in the symbol"6. He also links the symbol to Rousseau, to Nerval, to Baudelaire's correspondences and to symbolism as Hegel sees it, for whom the sphinx is "the symbol of the symbol"7.

1. 1Marx Plage 2/21 Feb 2016 · 1:17:09
2. 2Mythologie Grecque31 Dec 2018 · 1:39:14
3. 3Marx Plage 1/21 Feb 2016 · 1:02:04
4. 4Marx Plage 1/21 Feb 2016 · 1:15:21
5. 5#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 1:44:05
6. 6#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 12:19
7. 7#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 53:11

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