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This course will study multidisciplinary and multicultural themes surrounding a subject which stands at the crossroads of Eastern and Western culture, with Mediterranean Europe at its neurological center. The approach is at once historical, anthropological and psychonanalytical. In what way is the art of cooking the foundation and the memory of culture? It is, of course, necessary to begin with the Last Supper, the sacred feast and sacrifice. There are innumerable texts surrounding these subjects, such as the American novelist Fischer, Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein or even the detective genre in France, Spain and Italy, from the cadaver with its flesh engorged by the delights of cooking. We will also address the ambivalent central theme of the dinner table in the context of Plato’s philosophy or in Flaubert and Zola’s novels. There is also an enormous amount of material in the area of film which will be studied in this course. This course is taught in French.
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