Triangle

Summary

Dominique Pagani treats the triangle as a figure of intelligibility that makes it possible to move beyond the binary1. In its primary form, it brings together the subject, the other and the thing. In his view, what matters is neither the relation of the self to the thing alone nor the relation to the other alone, but the triangle that unites these three terms from the outset2. In 2023, he speaks of an "indissoluble unity" of self, other and thing, and specifies that one consumes the other at the same time as the thing3. He finds this same triangle of subject, thing and other at the origin of logic4. He also identifies it as a structure in Nerval: the king, who stands for power, the challenger, Rousseau, and between them what is at stake, the woman5. The same pattern thus serves to think about consciousness, about logic, and about a literary and political configuration.

1. 1E for Enfance (Childhood)19 Dec 2014 · 2:09
2. 2"On a triangle of madness at the heart of modern consciousness"19 Dec 2014 · 4:22
3. 3E for Enfance (Childhood)19 Dec 2014 · 4:38
4. 4What is to be done? 2/329 Jan 2016 · 48:37
5. 5What is to be done? 2/329 Jan 2016 · 1:13

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