The Antigone complex
Subtitle: ethics and the invention of feminine desire
By: Cecilia Sjoèholm
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Feminist ethics; Desire (Philosophy); Femininity (Philosophy); Antigone (Greek mythology)
Description: "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. In her discussion, Sjoholm explores Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of Antigone by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index
Table of contents: title: Morality and the invention of feminine desire; title: Sexuality versus recognition : feminine desire in the ethical order; title: The purest poem : Heidegger's Antigone; title: From Oedipus to Antigone : revisiting the question of feminine desire; title: Family politics/family ethics : Butler, Lacan, and the thing beyond the object