Tristan

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Tristan through Clouscard's Traité de l'amour fou, which centres on this myth and devotes most of its pages to the paroxysmal passion of Tristan and Iseult1. He takes up Clouscard's phrase "the dream is Tristan", the true dream that he contrasts with the trinkets of advertising2. He presents Tristan as the figure of human love and as an example of passion ennobled beyond sexuality, which cannot be explained by biology: Iseult's smile cannot be reduced to the predator's canines3. He stresses the triangle with King Mark: without that marriage there is no passion, and alone in the forest the lovers grow bored4. He compares the structure of the story to that of Theseus, with the slaying of the Morholt and the white sail5. He also highlights the role of the potion, a sign of a necessity external to the characters, and, when discussing Wagner, calls the sea the true main character6.

1. 1Clouscard : Les métamorphoses de la lutte des classes2 Sept 2024 · 27:01
2. 2Attention aux contresens !! Clouscard et l'idéologie du désir, en hommage au Précepteur14 Jan 2023 · 12:48
3. 3#1.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 46:50
4. 4Assemblée nationale24 Oct 2018 · 25:49
5. 5L'essence du mal - Innocence de la nature, horreur du naturalisme !17 Dec 2024 · 43:55
6. 69 #18 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération3 Apr 2021 · 1:56:10

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