Lacan

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes above all one formula from Lacan, which he quotes year after year: "before signifying something, all speech signifies for someone." He sees in it the priority of the relation to the other and stresses the word "before"1. He applies it to Racine, where the addressee becomes co-author, and later to Kant2. In the Écrits he reads closely the Rome discourse, "The Function and Field of Speech and Language," a "masterpiece" written in the style of a "sub-Mallarmé"3. He also comments on the seminar on "The Purloined Letter," its triangle and the dream of seeing without being seen. He links Lacan to Hegel for the specular relation to the other and for the mirror stage4. At the same time he places him among the structuralists, who give primacy to the signifier and evacuate the subject5. He includes the individual unconscious within the historico-social unconscious, which class struggle precedes6. Finally, he mentions Clouscard's hostility to "Lacanitude" and the Lacan who treated Althusser in the Luberon.

1. 1De Copernic à Lénine: Révolution !28 Aug 2026 · 7:46
2. 2Racine4 Feb 2019 · 42:42
3. 3#6.1-1/2 - Prélude • D.Pagani / Lacan : Fonction et champs de la parole et du langage10 Nov 2019 · 16:03
4. 4Hegel Plage 4/52 Feb 2016 · 53:32
5. 5La répression du sujet dans la société civile bourgeoise9 Aug 2025 · 56:26
6. 6Wagner et ses interprètes, L'accès à Clouscard, Marx = Thésée? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 1:14:15

Summary produced automatically from 98 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.