Orphée

Summary

Dominique Pagani refers to Orpheus first as a figure of music, whom he also presents as a god of metamorphosis1. He returns several times to the scene of his death: stoned by the Maenads, Orpheus keeps singing until the last stone, and the animals come to listen to his song. In the session on interpretation, he links this image to the return from the underworld, from which Orpheus comes back having become song2. He recalls that Orpheus is the only one to have tried to bring Eurydice back from the underworld, and that he loses her because he turned around3. In a session on the logics of the subject, he presents this story as an inverted myth, in which it is the man who turns around4. He also cites the figure of the one who descends into the underworld and comes back in connection with the sonnet El Desdichado. Finally, in a session on Nietzsche and Wagner, he makes Tarzan a new Orpheus, who tames by howling.

1. 1#15 Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music9 Feb 2021 · 1:26:22
2. 2#17 Interpretation25 Mar 2021 · 59:12
3. 3#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia…24 Dec 2020 · 1:10:53
4. 4#11 Return to the logics of the subject21 Jun 2020 · 54:18

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