Salomon

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Solomon through the story Nerval retells in the Voyage en Orient. There Solomon forms a triangle with the Queen of Sheba and Adoniram, and he is its sovereign1. He often returns to the fact that the temple bears the name of Solomon, who remains in glory, although it was the workman Adoniram who built it23. He also dwells on the meeting with the Queen of Sheba, already found in the Old Testament, and on the hoopoe or the messenger birds she sends him45. In a session on Marthe Robert, he presents him as a king weary of his wives, who laughs at the butterfly6. The phrase "Solomon, son of David" serves him as an example of biblical genealogy, which he compares to the griot's oral genealogies78. In 2022, he applies the judgment of Solomon to the war in Ukraine: cutting the child in two is, in his view, what is being done today between Ukrainians and Russians9.

1. 1#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:16:00
2. 2Freud1 Aug 2017 · 1:36:05
3. 3Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 1:45:37
4. 4#4.8 Angélique (de Nerval)16 May 2018 · 45:03
5. 5#9 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 May 2020 · 18:37
6. 6Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 55:04
7. 7#10 • Retour aux logiques du sujet11 Jun 2020 · 3:53
8. 8L'essence du mal - Innocence de la nature, horreur du naturalisme !17 Dec 2024 · 38:25
9. 9#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 1:09:47

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.