Pasiphaé

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Pasiphaë briefly but regularly from 2017 to 2024, always in connection with the same episode: her union with a bull, from which the Minotaur is born. He presents her as the mother of the Minotaur, and also of Ariadne and Phaedra12. In this way he gathers several figures of Cretan mythology around a single mother. He treats this coupling as an example of hubris: it is Pasiphaë's excess that gives birth to the Minotaur3. In the session devoted to Freud, he recalls that she is the daughter of the Sun and "infatuated" with a bull4. In 2020, he counts her act among the worst instances of hubris in mythology5. He mentions her in sessions on a range of themes: crisis and war, amnesia, worldliness in Clouscard, then the essence of evil and the horror of naturalism. The passages do not develop the interpretation any further, and what he says stays the same from one session to the next.

1. 1#2.7 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 8:35
2. 2L'essence du mal - Innocence de la nature, horreur du naturalisme !17 Dec 2024 · 41:55
3. 3#2.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 13:22
4. 4Freud1 Aug 2017 · 1:27:29
5. 5#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020 · 1:10:01

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.