Merleau-Ponty’s Echo

Chiasmi International 18:77-89 (2016)
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In a note from the course on passivity, we find a reflection by Merleau-Ponty on the nature of the dream as an echo. Between wakefulness and sleep, but also between dream and waking, the echo would never cease to structure our whole psychic life through its reverberations, building bridges between dimensions that language can only separate. The dream would therefore be the event of a certain echo, each time unique. Hence Merleau-Ponty’s idea of making this echo an ally for understanding the dream, a theoretical schema that transforms the concepts of understanding and psychical hermeneutics as well as our representation of voice and sound.Dans une note du cours sur la passivité, on trouve une réflexion de Merleau-Ponty sur la nature du rêve en tant qu’écho. Entre éveil et sommeil, mais aussi entre rêve et veille, l’écho n’arrêterait pas de structurer par sa réverbération notre entière vie psychique, en construisant des ponts entre des dimensions que la langue ne saurait que séparer. Le rêve serait donc l’événement d’un certain écho, à chaque fois unique. D’où l’idée de Merleau-Ponty de faire de cet écho un allié pour la compréhension du rêve, schéma théorique qui transforme tantôt les notions de compréhension et d’herméneutique psychique, tantôt la représentation que l’on a de la voix et du son.In un appunto per il corso sulla passività Merleau-Ponty ha annotato un inconsueto pensiero sulla natura del sogno come eco. Tra veglia e sonno, ma anche tra sogno e veglia, quest’eco non smetterebbe di strutturare sulla sua riverberazione l’intera nostra vita psichica, costruendo ponti tra dimensioni che la lingua solitamente separa. Il sogno sarebbe dunque l’evento di un’eco singolare, ogni volta unica. Da qui l’idea di Merleau-Ponty di fare proprio di questa eco l’alleato per la comprensione del sogno, disegno teorico che trasforma tanto le nozioni di comprensione e di ermeneutica psichica, quanto la rappresentazione che della voce e del suono diamo abitualmente.

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