Adam et Ève

Religion

Appears in 5 videos · 6 passages, 2 of them in depth.

Summary

Dominique Pagani discusses Adam and Eve mainly through the episode of the tree of knowledge. He sees in it a fault willed by God that brings humanity out of animality: it gives rise to shame at being naked, to labour, and to giving birth in pain1. He notes that when the serpent, a liar, announces the fruit of knowledge, it tells the truth for once2. He connects this story to Germanic mythology as Wagner takes it up in Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods): just as Adam and Eve taste the fruit of the tree, Wotan drinks from the spring of knowledge3. He sees this as one and the same myth, found in the desert as in the North4. Elsewhere, the couple serves as a reference point for thinking about transmission: if what is passed on never changed, we would repeat what they said to Abel and Cain5. He also notes that in a novel he discusses, the teacher refuses to start history with Adam and Eve6.

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Cycle 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?

1:58:26The fruit of the tree of knowledge: the serpent, a liar, tells the truth for once.

Cycle 12 · 4 Jan 2024I am not who you think I am: the elusive identity

44:23The fault willed by God brings man out of animality: shame at being naked, labor, childbirth in pain.

Cycle 9.2 · 3 Apr 2021#9.18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation

1:03:57Just as they taste the tree of knowledge, Wotan drinks from the spring of knowledge.
1:25:08The same myth is found everywhere, in the desert as in the North.

Cycle 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)

30:14Without modification of what is transmitted, we would repeat what was said to Abel and Cain.

Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

1:42:47The novel's professor sets aside the beginning of history with Adam and Eve.