Proust - Un amour de Swann

16 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Love as pathology: Théodule Ribot and experimental psychology; illness as experiment and its importance for the studies of human faculties such as memory, will, and creativity. Closing remarks on the final pages of the book: the last audition of the sonata and Swann's disillusionment.

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Proust - Un amour de Swann

14 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

The instability of judgment in the field of art, human relationships, and one's social standing. Swann's fall from grace with the Verdurins and the antagonism with Forcheville. A pathological depiction of love (use of metaphors and comparisons that convey a vision of love as illness): its problematic implications and possible explanations.

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Proust - Un amour de Swann

9 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Intoxication as a consequence of the misuse of art and the further developments of the topic of idolatry. Jealousy as a form of slavery. The ungraspable image of Odette and the impossibility of love (i.e., controlling the lover at any time and in any point in space), its inevitable failure. 

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Proust - Un amour de Swann

7 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Swann's relationship to art and the topic of idolatry: Vinteuil's sonata (analysis of the different auditions); Odette as the Zipporah by Botticelli; the incompatibility between life and art. The evolution of Swann's relationship to Odette: the anguish caused by the fact of not finding her at the Verdurins, the birth of jealousy, and the illusion of physical "possession".

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Proust - Un amour de Swann

2 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Proust's style: from particular to universal (and back), the use of comparisons; the use of irony and reported speech.

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