docteur Blanche

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Doctor Blanche only as Nerval's physician, in the sessions devoted to Angélique, to Aurélia and to "the Nerval case". He notes that Nerval was confined in his asylum1 and above all singles out one gesture: Blanche advises his patient to write down his dreams, visions or obsessions. He considers this approach ahead of its time and "surprisingly appropriate"23. He traces the origin of Aurélia to this advice: "we owe Aurélia to him," he says several times4, and he specifies that the text was written in the clinic5. He also quotes a remark by Blanche, written to the archbishop after Nerval's suicide: Nerval "saw his madness face to face"6. He takes up this phrase in 2021 to discuss Nerval's relationship to his own madness. From 2015 to 2021, his remarks on Blanche remain the same.

1. 1Kant11 Dec 2015 · 38:15
2. 2Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 45:10
3. 3#5 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude18 Apr 2020 · 8:22
4. 4#4.9 Angélique (de Nerval)14 Jun 2018 · 1:19:07
5. 59 #24 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Nerval • Baudelaire • 2ème partie30 Jun 2021 · 17:01
6. 6#4 Nomade et sédentaire - Le cas Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 1:01:56

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