ABSTRACT
Pierre Fedida's thinking on the image is dominated by melancholia and the dread of dying. The dream, as a model and experience, is fundamentally a work of mourning, mourning the unforgettable. Extending S. Freud's thought in The Interpretation of Dreams, he emphasises that, if the dream image is presence, it consists, including plastically, in its visuality, of forgetting, that is, forgetting that once upon a time it was clairvoyant and that it saw. The difficulty of the text titled “Le souffle indistinct de l'image” lies in part in the fact that in it, Fedida conducts a long philosophical reflection mixing image, dream image and painting, and evokes a variety of authors from Paul Klee to Pierre Boulez, including Freud.
