Aricie

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Aricie in connection with Racine's Phèdre, in sessions ranging from 2017 to 2022. He first places her in the plot: she is the last survivor of the Pallantides, the family exterminated by Theseus, who keeps her under house arrest and forbids her to any man12. She is also the one Hippolytus loves and the recipient of his confession, a scene he often returns to34. He qualifies the image of the innocent girl: Aricie wants to "bring pain into an unfeeling soul", which he reads as a sadistic impulse5. A Cinderella in appearance, she loves in Hippolytus the fact that he has never loved and that he resists love, and she wants to make him yield and disarm him6. He sees her seize on the confession, somewhat flirtatiously. In 2022 he calls her a slightly naughty little "goody two-shoes": she loves Hippolytus for his shyness, but her unconscious draws her towards Theseus7.

1. 1Racine4 Feb 2019 · 1:11:19
2. 2#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020 · 46:49
3. 3#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 1:05:06
4. 4#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020 · 1:23:54
5. 5#2.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 39:20
6. 6#10 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...24 Dec 2020 · 41:30
7. 7#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 7:58

Summary produced automatically from 12 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.