Claude fall, alain francon, jacques nichet, marieclaude pietragalla. The effect of focusing, in a text, around an impossible place. And what if what cannot be assimilated, the absolute indigestible, played a fundamental role in the system, an abyssal role rather, the abyss playing. Ismene but no one must hear of this, you must tell no one. Im going now 80 to make a burial mound for my dear brother. Honig follows jacques lacans suggestion as to why the play might continue to excite our curiosity twoand. Antigone and the natural law cambridge university press.
Antigone is seen with, in turn, her nurse, her sis the staging of. Jacques lacan, one of butlers chosen interlocutors on the antigone, is also interested in the play as a vehicle for ethical reflection. Text with short english notes for the use of schools oxford, 1885, the antigone and its moral was begun, according to george eliots journal, on 25. Introduction sophocles sophocles was born at colonus, a small village just to the northwest of athens, in 4965 bc. The con is sparse, its props minimala single setting, flict is established almost at once as we learn that. The ego in freuds theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis ed. But antigone s own prickly character makes her struggle all the more admirable, since it is so dificcult to like her. Jean anouilh was a french playwright living in germanoccupied france during world war ii. Lacans antigone, zizeks antigone, psychoanalysis and. From hegel and lacan through to jacques derrida, judith butler, peter euben, arlene saxonhouse, lee. Jean anouilh antigone 2 personnages antigone, fille d. The internet classics archive antigone by sophocles. The people darent object but the prophet teiresias warns that this tyranny will. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations.
Dominique pinon born 4 march 1955 is a french actor. Antigone at colonus and the ends of tragedy brooke holmes sophocles oedipus at colonus, it would seem, is an exercise in closure. He is known for appearing in films directed by jeanpierre jeunet, often playing eccentric or grotesque characters. Jacques lacans seminar vii on the ethics of psychoanalysis culminates in three sessions devoted to a remarkable reading of sophocles tragedy antigone. With its challenging exploration of conflicts between family and state, divine and human law, male authority and female resistance, antigone continues to strike responsive chords in all kinds of audiences and readers, and to be. Storr translation 1912 for the loeb classical library. The death of the oikos in the antigone in her final speech to creon, antigone explains that she would not contradict the law of the polis to bury a hypothetical husband or child 90515 as she did for her brother. Antigone, in order to inform or illustrate their own ideas. Antigone is a kind of inhuman martyr, lacan observes. Whilst bonnie honigs antigone, interrupted is therefore striding into crowded and contested ground, it does so not without an attempt at selfjustification. Antigone needs to share horrifying news with her sister ismene, and so she leads ismene out of earshot from the palace where they live.
Antigone, daughter of oedipus ismene, daughter of oedipus creon, king of thebes, uncle of antigone and ismene haemon, creons son, engaged to antigone eurydice, wife of creon tiresias, a blind prophet chorus, 15 elders of thebes. The life of the aesthete, who makes of his existence a work of art. Like god, the sublime, alcohol, and the unconscious, the real is janus. The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. On these, and other aspects of the history of the plays reception and interpretation, see steiner 1984. Although lacans study of the play within the context of psychoanalysis has very different aims than those of butlers, his observations on antigone s splendor nevertheless make for an interesting. In the opening scene, oedipus, worn down by years of wandering blind and hungry, arrives at the borders of athens. Woodruffs introduction is a strong, clear, and clever blend of basic traditional information to those who know greek tragedy and fresh insights.
Antigone is not a modern text and was not composed with a modern audience in mind. Antigone comes to represent kinship and its dissolution, and creon comes to represent an emergent ethical order and state authority based on principles of universality. Nothing painful is there, nothing fraught with ruin, no shame, no dishonour, that i have not seen in thy woes and mine. After studying at the faculty of arts of poitiers, dominique pinon moved to paris and enrolled at the cours simon. This chapter concerns what lacan calls the real and its relationship with the inner truth of antigone.
Since aristotles day, more than one plausible narrative of the good human life has emerged. Cocteau chose in 1922 to translate sophocles famous tragedy antigon 441 b. What struck me second, however, is a point to which i hope to. Ce contenu a ete publie dans actualites, news, et marque avec anne carson, antigonick, ben hjorth, philoperformance par anna street. Antigone, the third of sophocles three theban plays, follows the fall of the house of oedipus and begins in the aftermath of the theban civil war.
Antigonick by sophokles, translated by anne carson, labo laps 2014. Whenever possible, we have used the same english word or phrase for the greek so that verbal patterns and reminiscences may be traced throughout the play. It is you who have lost your way and dont know what to say. Antigone ismene, sister, mine own dear sister, knowest thou what ill there is, of all bequeathed by oedipus, that zeus fulfils not for us twain while we live. For antigone, one such word is kakos, used as a noun and adjective and translated usually as evils or evil. In her new translation of antigone, ruby blondell demonstrates an unswerving sense of what the general reader needs to know in order not only to understand sophocles, but to relish him as well my own students have found that this edition not only makes the antigone accessible, but also helps them understand why it continues to fascinate, to.
Sophocles antigone takes place in a trying time for the city of thebes, when oedipus, their king, and most of the royal family have died, and creon has just been appointed the new king. I am too far away from you now, talking to you from a kingdom you cant get into, with your quick tongue and your hollow heart. Antigone, interrupted sophocles antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist, and legal theory, possibly the most commentedupon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Pdf antigone antigone and ismene enter from the central door of the palace. Should our drama department ask for my advice as to a. Oedipus is the prototypical tragic hero, according to aristotle in the poetics. What would have happened if psychoanalysis had taken antigone rather than oedipus as its point of departure. This chapter explores how the figure of antigone has played a crucial role in the history of psychoanalysis in postwar france. These are questions that sophocles tragedy elicited when antigone it was first performed 2,500 years ago and they remain the questions that the play demands we ask ourselves today. Antigone and the natural law 3 once one begins to tell a story, however, a troubling insight quickly occurs. Gerard lieber et celie pauthe scenographie guillaume delaveau direction musicale. Antigones words on the gods unwritten laws keep close to the greek and yet would be authentic for a modern speaker. More trusting in ancient testimonies than many scholars would be, but includes a thorough survey of the biographical material. Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity more important than all political struggles.
Holman was premier of new south wales between 19 and 1920 and he was a very public supporter of the french war effort. Creon condemns the young woman, his niece, to be buried alive. As luce irigaray and jacques lacan compete for the. Negatively speaking, it signifies the jouissance which the death drive persuades us to derive from the process of our own dismemberment. Jacques lacan, in turn, conceptualised his rethinking of the freudian project as an extension of the levistraussian problematic. Storr, ba formerly scholar of trinity college, cambridge from the loeb library edition originally published by harvard university press, cambridge, ma and william heinemann ltd, london first published in 1912 argument antigone, daughter of oedipus, the late king of thebes, in. Antigone blondell edition greek and roman drama theatre. Ismene make sure you dont reveal to anyone what you intend. We have on occasion departed from idiomatic english. Antigone no subject encyclopedia of psychoanalysis. What if creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make.
In her recent book antigone s claim, judith butler returns to a question once posed by george steiner. Antigone by sophocles, translated by dudley fitts and robert fitzgerald selected scenes by april cole characters. Who is the tragic hero in antigone, and whats antigone s tragic flaw. The filmic narrative mode of the glass menagerie journal of the short story in english, 59 2014 1. I laugh, creon, because i see suddenly what a transparent hypocrite you are.