Cycle 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!- 41:55Mother of Ariadne, Phaedra and the Minotaur, born of her union with a bull.
Pasiphaé
Appears in 6 videos · 6 passages, 3 of them in depth.
Summary
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 bull. In 2020, he counts her act among the worst instances of hubris in mythology4. 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#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1 Aug 2017 · 8:35
- 2The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!17 Dec 2024 · 41:55
- 3#2.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1 Aug 2017 · 13:22
- 4#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…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.
Who is this?In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë was the daughter of Helios, queen of Crete, and mother of the Minotaur. After her husband Minos failed to sacrifice the Cretan Bull to Poseidon as promised, the god cursed Pasiphaë to fall in love with the bull. She had Daedalus build a hollow wooden cow for her to hide in, which she then used to mate with the bull; afterwards, she gave birth to the Minotaur.
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Cycle 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!
Cycle 9.1 · 17 Dec 2020#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…- 1:10:01Her mating with a bull, one of the worst hubris in mythology, gives birth to the Minotaur.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:27:29Daughter of the Sun, enamored of a bull: the hubris that engenders the Minotaur.
Cycle 11 · 22 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the world as “cunning of reason”- 1:11:51Mother of the Minotaur, whom she bore by a bull.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 13:22His excess engenders the Minotaur.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 8:35Mother of the Minotaur, Ariadne and Phaedra, she deceived Minos with a bull.