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By : Monique Schneider - Sunday, 02 January 2011 00:00 |
 Libertine, atheist, manipulator... Don Juan is a fascinating and complex character. In five centuries, traveling from a text to another, he passed from a stature of a literary hero to true modern myth. Within an continual movement, Don Juan is the emblem of a mutating world where patrimony stops being holy to let speculation and scattering of values developing: we passed from the being to appearances.
To Monique Schneider, the Don Juan myth is the myth of a fleeing man, with one single idea in mind, to take women out of their way.
Breaking in a place where he is not supposed to be, in the middle of the night, masked and ready to flee; he can only penetrate under a fake identity, isn't it his way of acting ? The image of the conqueror adventurer, going from victory to victory, lets another image appear: the castaway, desperate, going from buoy to buoy.
 
Don Juan seeks women but instead of going to them, he passes through them, his sensuality goes with superficiality. It is a continuous fleeing since women are for Don Juan a coffin. In his need of possession, of transgression, there is a fundamental fear of women.
Why this fear ? Where does that ontological wish of transgressing come from ? What is the relation of Don Juan to the paternal figure ? Why so many women are seduced by him ? Is it the seducer who charm them, or is it the castaway ? Don't the escapades of his life betray a mismanaging between his masculine pole and feminine pole ?
Answer from Monique Schneider, psychoanalyst, in this 46-minutes presentation.
This conference was filmed during the days « Rencontre Féminin-Masculin, regards croisés : Marie-Louise von Franz - Pierre Solié », at the Forum 104 and organized by the association « Autour de Marie-Louise von Franz »
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