Dream

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches the dream mainly through Nerval, reading Angélique in the light of Aurélia. He shows that the scene of the little girls of Senlis and a dream in Aurélia use the same nouns with inverted attributes, as in a mirror. He concludes that Angélique follows the logic of a reported dream and that the Nerval case amplifies structures common to everyone1. In 2021 he takes up this superimposition again in a two-way table: Aurélia is Angélique "multiplied by minus one", which in his view establishes the determinability of human productions2. He also reads the quest for the mother in a dream from Aurélia. There the dream translates statements into images, as in Freud, and becomes blurred just as it approaches the maternal figure: this is repression3. With Jean-Paul's "Walt's Dream", he places the birth of the individual dream as a literary genre, distinct from the emblematic dream of antiquity, and shows that sonic events articulate its progression4. Finally, he links two dreams from Aurélia to the dialectic of red, white and pink in Parsifal5.

1. 1#4.2 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Nov 2017
2. 29 #23 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss9 Jun 2021
3. 3#4.8 Angélique (de Nerval)16 May 2018
4. 4Musicosophie 9. Ironie romantique et sonate de Vinteuil15 Jan 2021
5. 5Sauver le sauveur ? La rédemption - fin du cycle ou son recommencement ?21 Apr 2024

Introduction produced automatically from the 5 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.