Brünnhilde

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Brünnhilde in connection with Wagner's Ring cycle, especially in the 2021 sessions devoted to Götterdämmerung. He presents her as the warrior maiden, Wotan's favourite daughter, whom he compares to Athena12. At first she is nothing but her father's will, his "innermost thought"3. On discovering the power of love, she disobeys him, but in order to do what Wotan would have wanted, and is condemned to sleep within a ring of flames4. He dwells on her awakening by Siegfried, who then feels fear for the first time, and on the way the music joins the theme of her sleep with that of the bird5. He notes that as early as the sunlit duet she calls for the end of the gods. He then follows Siegfried's betrayal of her, which she seeks to avenge. Finally, she who has been the most humiliated directs the finale: she returns the ring to the Rhine and attains absolute knowledge, "Alles weiss ich"6. She also reproaches the gods for their eternal fault.

1. 1#3 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...6 Nov 2020 · 20:22
2. 29 #19 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération • Partie 214 Apr 2021 · 12:29
3. 3#6.1-1/2 - Prélude • D.Pagani / Lacan : Fonction et champs de la parole et du langage10 Nov 2019 · 1:34
4. 49 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 55:18
5. 5L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 2:08:50
6. 69 #19 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération • Partie 214 Apr 2021 · 26:36

Summary produced automatically from 15 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.