Goebbels

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Goebbels only occasionally, mostly through scenes and sayings that he uses as examples. He retains the image of Goebbels listening to the funeral march from Götterdämmerung in his bunker, in which he sees "the imaginary in power"1. He reads Goebbels's suicide, along with his family, as an empirical illustration of the death drive, which in his view must be overcome2. In 2016 he quotes the phrase "when I hear the word culture, I reach for my pistol" in connection with criticism being accused of bringing about crisis3. In 2019 he points out that the phrase is wrongly attributed to Goebbels4. He also mentions Goebbels's hostility toward Furtwängler, which drove the conductor to take refuge in Switzerland5, and his complaint that Nazi militants were too stiff with German women6. Finally, he treats him as the counter-example of the "pure Aryan"7. In a remark about Popper, he contrasts him with Foucault: he would rather spend an evening with Foucault8.

1. 1Y comme Yonville8 Jan 2015 · 3:59
2. 2#6.1-1/2 - Prélude • D.Pagani / Lacan : Fonction et champs de la parole et du langage10 Nov 2019 · 35:02
3. 3Adamov (Arthur)18 Feb 2016 · 42:06
4. 4Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 39:50
5. 5Wagner et ses interprètes, L'accès à Clouscard, Marx = Thésée? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 35:53
6. 6#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 51:24
7. 7L'identité imaginaire15 May 2025 · 51:21
8. 8Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 6:51

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.