Series · 13 Jun 2025Our former savagery? An Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud- 24:27His temple at cape Sounion marks the boundary between the human world and the infinite, the domain of the gods.
Poséidon
Appears in 7 videos · 9 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani returns to Poseidon mainly through his temple at Cape Sounion, which, he says, turns its back on the infinity of the sea12. He takes up this image from one session to the next, from 2016 to 2025. In 2025 he refines it: the temple marks the boundary between the human world and the infinite, which is the domain of the gods3. He also links Poseidon to what he calls Greek immanence: for the Greeks, the ocean is someone and not something; it is the god's dwelling, which makes it an example of the immanent divine45. In the same vein, he recalls that storms were attributed to him. Finally, he brings him up in connection with the Odyssey: Poseidon's vengeance keeps Ulysses from reaching Ithaca for ten years and drives him from island to island6. He relates this wandering to questions about the edge, passage, roots and migration.
- 1What is to be done? 2/329 Jan 2016 · 56:03
- 2Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war17 Feb 2023 · 41:12
- 3Our former savagery? An Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud13 Jun 2025 · 24:27
- 4Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self2 Dec 2024 · 22:48
- 5The foundations of the Platonic and Aristotelian distinction5 May 2026 · 12:32
- 6#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge7 Apr 2022 · 27:08
Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Poseidon (; Ancient Greek: Ποσειδῶν, romanised: Poseidôn) is one of the twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. He was the protector of seafarers and the guardian of many Hellenic cities and colonies. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, Poseidon was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes, with the cult title "earth shaker"; in the myths of isolated Arcadia, he is related to Demeter and Despoina and was venerated as a horse, and as a god of the waters. […]
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Series · 13 Jun 2025Our former savagery? An Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 2/3- 56:03His temple at Cape Sounion turns its back on natural infinity.
Cycle 15 · 5 May 2026The foundations of the Platonic and Aristotelian distinction- 12:32The ocean is his dwelling for the Greeks: an example of immanent divinity.
Cycle 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self
Cycle 11 · 17 Feb 2023Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war
Cycle 10 · 7 Apr 2022#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge- 27:08Her vengeance prevents Ulysses from reaching Ithaca for ten years.
Cycle 6 · 3 Dec 2019#6.2 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 22:45The storm was attributed to him.