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Antigone Complex

Cecilia Sjoeholm
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      What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules. Sjöholm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of Antigone by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. This book introduces the concept of the "Antigone complex" in order to illuminate the obscure and multifaceted question of feminine desire, which has given rise to the fascination of generations of philosophers and other theoreticians, as well as readers and spectators. At the same time the book argues for a notion of desire that is intrinsically related to ethics. The ethical question posed by Antigone, and explored in the book, is: what determines those actions that one must do, as opposed to those that one ought to do?
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Cecilia Sjoeholm EAN: 9780804748926 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 458 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Stanford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-10-08 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Literature: history and criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Cecilia Sjöholm is Associate Professor in the Program of Aesthetics at South Stockholm University College, Sweden.
      What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules. Sjöholm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of Antigone by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. This book introduces the concept of the "Antigone complex" in order to illuminate the obscure and multifaceted question of feminine desire, which has given rise to the fascination of generations of philosophers and other theoreticians, as well as readers and spectators. At the same time the book argues for a notion of desire that is intrinsically related to ethics. The ethical question posed by Antigone, and explored in the book, is: what determines those actions that one must do, as opposed to those that one ought to do?
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Cecilia Sjoeholm EAN: 9780804748926 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 458 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Stanford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-10-08 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Literature: history and criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Cecilia Sjöholm is Associate Professor in the Program of Aesthetics at South Stockholm University College, Sweden.

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