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The fierce radiance, the spark of beauty, coincides with the moment of transgression, of fulfilment, of Antigone’s Ate, which is the feature I have emphasised in particular… Through this element, a certain relationship is established for us with what lies beyond the central field, but it is also what prevents us from seeing its true nature… The effect of beauty is like blindness. Beyond it, something else happens, something that cannot be looked upon…
Antigone appears as autonomous—the uncontrived relationship of the human being with what, by some miracle, they happen to carry within them: the signifying cut, which confers upon them the unsurpassable power to be, in the face of and against everyone, what they are…
But Antigone carries to its extreme the fulfilment of what we can call pure desire: the unambiguous desire for death as such. She embodies this desire.
Consider this—what becomes of her desire? Should it not be the desire of the Other, and be connected with the mother’s desire? The mother’s desire, the text hints, is the source of everything. At the same time, it is the founding desire of the whole structure: the desire that brought into the world those singular offspring, Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone and Ismene. Yet it is also a criminal desire… The offspring of the incestuous union are two brothers, one representing power and the other crime. No one but Antigone is left to bear the crime and affirm its legitimacy.
Between the two, Antigone chooses to be unequivocally the guardian of the criminal’s being as such. Perhaps things could have ended differently if the social body had been willing to forgive, to forget, and to honour them both with the same funeral rites. Since the community refuses to do so, Antigone must sacrifice her being at the altar of preserving that essential being which is the family Ate—the motive, the true point of reference around which this entire tragedy revolves.
Antigone preserves, perpetuates and immortalises this Ate forever.
(From Chapter XXI)
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- Publisher
- PSychogios
- Original Title
- L'ethique de la psychanalyse.
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 464
- Release Date
- 22/10/2026
- Publication Date
- 2026
- Dimensions
- 15.5x24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180162714
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