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Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
by Judith Butler
What was Antigone's crime? And did she really stand against Creon, against the city-state? What if she stands at the very limit of the public law, exposing its unwritten, disavowed support?
Some of the more technical problematization of what Antigone stood for Lacan went a bit over my head.
Contra Hegel, who treats Antigone's action as a feminine 'corruption' and appropriation of what belongs to the masculine universality of the state (hence the feminine law of the family must give way to masculine law of the state) and against Lacanian psychoanalysis that supplies an unwitting apologia for the heterosexual social organization of the family via the demarcation of the social from the symbolic (the symbolic is the realm of totality and of pure formal positions), Butler maintains that Antigone represents the crisis of [normative] kinship representation itself. How? Antigone slides into every position except for that of the mother (she asserts her masculinity by appropriating the language of sovereignty even as she militates against it).
Having not read any Butler previously, I delved into this intepretation of the classic play expecting to understand little beyond immediate reference to the original text. So I'm positively amazed at how I well could, by and large, make sense of Butler's maneuvres, disruptions, interventions, etc,
Some of the more technical problematization of what Antigone stood for Lacan went a bit over my head.
Contra Hegel, who treats Antigone's action as a feminine 'corruption' and appropriation of what belongs to the masculine universality of the state (hence the feminine law of the family must give way to masculine law of the state) and against Lacanian psychoanalysis that supplies an unwitting apologia for the heterosexual social organization of the family via the demarcation of the social from the symbolic (the symbolic is the realm of totality and of pure formal positions), Butler maintains that Antigone represents the crisis of [normative] kinship representation itself. How? Antigone slides into every position except for that of the mother (she asserts her masculinity by appropriating the language of sovereignty even as she militates against it).
Having not read any Butler previously, I delved into this intepretation of the classic play expecting to understand little beyond immediate reference to the original text. So I'm positively amazed at how I well could, by and large, make sense of Butler's maneuvres, disruptions, interventions, etc,