By Cecilia Sjöholm
ISBN-10: 0804748926
ISBN-13: 9780804748926
What if psychoanalysis had selected Antigone instead of Oedipus? This booklet strains the relation among ethics and wish in very important philosophical texts that target femininity and use Antigone as their version. It indicates that the thought of female wish is conditioned by way of a view of girls as being liable to excesses and deficiencies relating to moral norms and ideas. Sjöholm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's paintings, in addition to readings of Antigone via G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler.
This booklet introduces the concept that of the "Antigone complex" with a view to light up the vague and multifaceted query of female hope, which has given upward thrust to the fascination of generations of philosophers and different theoreticians, in addition to readers and spectators. even as the booklet argues for a thought of wish that's intrinsically regarding ethics. the moral query posed through Antigone, and explored within the ebook, is: what determines these activities that one needs to do, in preference to those who one should do?
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Extra resources for The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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Wollstonecraft’s last novel, Maria or the Wrongs of Morality and the Invention of Feminine Desire Woman (), is filled with as much perversion, abuse, and blood as Sade’s stories. But Wollstonecraft has an emancipatory ambition. Sade’s alter ego, Juliette, celebrates her freedom as a subject of reason in the service of an enslaving fantasy. Wollstonecraft’s women are also locked in a fantasy, but the implications of their enslavement to a fantasy that is only the product of their own minds are quite different.
The aim is independence, in economic, social, and moral terms. She puts forward the supremacy of reason—sometimes spoken of as moral law—which in her account serves as the only guarantee of independence. 50 It must be remembered, however, that Wollstonecraft’s claim to a sexually undifferentiated reason was a significant contribution to the elaboration of a notion of universality that included women. 51 Women were therefore left outside of the moral discourse on reason. Through her recourse to reason, Wollstonecraft can also argue that the problem which arises with erratic feminine behavior does not merely arise with the fact that women submit to “men,” although she criticizes the fact that they are considered and treated as property.
Part of these impulses is transferred to and protected by the universal domain of legal rights. The problem, however, is that the natural domain is tainted by instincts and passions that are “inorganic,” as Hegel puts it: destructive and dangerous. A separation has to take place between a “good” natural domain and a chaotic or inorganic one; otherwise the “good” practices of the natural domain cannot serve the transformation from practices to universal rights. 3 Hegel included sexual conflict in tragic discourse and identified feminine figures such as Clytaemnestra and Antigone as disruptive threats to justice and law.
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