Circé

Summary

Dominique Pagani almost always mentions Circe in passing, as a stage in Ulysses's voyage: a port of call, a stopover, a moment in his wanderings12. He cites her in very different contexts: a session on Freud, a prelude devoted to Lacan, the interview introducing the future workshops, a session during lockdown, a workshop on Nerval and Baudelaire, and a reflection on rootedness and migration that runs from Hölderlin to war. In 2017, he counts her among the women of the islands who hold the hero back and recalls that she turns his companions into swine. In 2021, he speaks of one of Ulysses's "idylls"3. In 2023, he places her alongside the Cyclops among the stages of the return4. That same year, in a session on worldliness in Clouscard, he takes up the phrase "the tyrannical Circe" from "Le Voyage", who changes men into beasts5. The passages do not develop the character any further.

1. 1#6.1 Prelude: Lacan, “Function and field of speech and language”10 Nov 2019 · 1:16:20
2. 2Introduction to the upcoming workshops23 Mar 2020 · 45:58
3. 3#9.24 “Ruled like music paper!” Nerval, Baudelaire (part 2)30 Jun 2021 · 1:23:07
4. 4Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war17 Feb 2023 · 9:48
5. 5Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?9 Jul 2023 · 1:00:59

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.