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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Antaeus several times between 2017 and 2020, always in the same way: he presents him as the son of Gaia who regains his strength each time he touches the earth. He also recalls how Heracles, or Hercules, overcomes him: he lifts him up and smothers him in the air, away from the ground that nourishes him12. He does not treat this figure as a subject of study in its own right. He uses him mainly in his sessions on Nerval's Angélique, where the figure returns as a point of reference3. In the interview introducing the future workshops, he draws the comparison: Nerval regains strength on his maternal soil as Antaeus does through contact with the earth4. In a session from the lockdown period, he takes up this motif of the maternal earth again and points out Antaeus's name within the title "Antéros"5. This reading does not change across the passages.

1. 1#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:21:57
2. 2#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 1:48:11
3. 3#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:20:48
4. 4L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 32:13
5. 5#8 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude17 May 2020 · 1:16:58

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