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ANTIGONE 9

by Marcus Steinweg

Antigone is this raving dreamer, who tries to protect herself against the symbolic imperatives and the temptations of the imaginary in order to develop a self-assured demand which is a kind of law of all the lawless, the ‘law’ of those who come into conflict with the law, are disadvantaged, misrecognized or excluded by it. Antigone’s beauty is combined with her demand for a separate law for her always singular desire. This demand touches a certain impossibility; it captures the dimension of sacred life and endangered inviolability. Lacan’s real is the name for this zone of interference and undecidability of the sacred or sublime with naked pre-ontological ‘materiality’.

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