<blockquote>The ''modern'' ethical act, according to Lacan, displays the structure of what Freud called the gesture of ''abstaining'' was deeply interested in [[''Versagung''ethics]]. In the traditional one of his essays, "[[Kant]] avec [[Sade]]" (premodern1962-1963) act, the subject sacrifices everything (all 'pathological' things for attempt to [[construct]] a rationally coherent [[system]] of ethics by Kant is discredited by a [[structural]] analogy with the Cause-Thing delirious [[rationality]] of Sade. It is argued that matters by attempting to him more than life itself: Antigone, condemend universalized ethics and to deathestablish the criteria for universally binding [[ethical]] laws which are not dependent on the [[logic]] of the [[individual]] [[situation]], enumerates all Kant merely succeeds in separating pleasurability from the things she will [[notion]] of [[good]]. An important theme in one of his [[seminars]], ''notThe Ethics of [[Psychoanalysis]]'' be able to experience because of her premature death (marriage1959), childrenis the [[desire]] for [[death]]. [[Lacan]] believes that there are two [[death]]s. He suggests that there is a [[difference]] between [[biology|biological]] [[death]] and [[symbolic]] [[death]].) - this In [[Sophocle]]'s play, [[Antigone]] is excluded from the [[community]]; in other [[words]] her [[symbolic]] [[death]] precedes her [[nature|natural]] [[death]]. In [[Shakespeare]]'bad infinitys play the [[ghost]] of [[Hamlet]]' one sacrifices through s [[father]] represents the opposite [[case]]: [[nature|natural]] [[death]] unaccompanied by [[symbolic]] [[death]]. In the Exception (above [[seminar]] [[Lacan]] comments on the Thing for [[tragedy]] of [[Antigone]], in a play which one actsclearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to the [[death|dead]]. For [[Lacan]], [[Antigone]] is a [[model]] of [[ethics|ethical conduct]]. But, first, let us remind ourselves of the story. The sons of [[Oedipus]], brothers of [[Antigone]], Eteocles and whichPolynices, precisely, is ''not'' sacrificed)have killed each other in battle. Here Eteocles was fighting on the structure is that side of the Kantian SUblime: [[state]], Thebes, and Polynices was attacking it. The ruler of Thebes, Creon, brother of Jocasta, decrees that the overwwhelming infinity corpse of sacrificed empirical/pathological objects brings home in a negative way Eteocles be buried with [[full]] honors and that the enormouscorpse of Polynices be [[left]] to be rupped apart by dogs and birds. Wilfully disobedient, incomprehensible dimension of [[Antigone]] performs the Thing proper funeral rites for which one sacrifices themPolynices. She takes full [[responsibility]] for her actions. So Antigone is sublime in Creon sentences her sad enumeration of what she is sacrificing - this list, to be walled up in its enormity, indicates a cave with just enough food to relieve his [[guilt]] for her unconditional fidelity[[death]]. It is necessary [[Antigone]] chooses to add that ''this'die: she hangs herself. As a consequence, Creon' s son Haemon, fiancé of [[Antigone is a ]], also kills himself, and so does Creon''masculine'' fantasy ''par excellence''?<ref>Žižeks wife, Eurydice. For having declared himself and the state as mightier than the gods, SCreon loses everything. (2000) Creon represents what we could call a strong [[ego]]. He cannot tolerate a defiance of his [[The Fragile Absoluteauthority]], or Why especially from a [[woman]]. On the Christian Legacy other hand, [[Antigone]]'s [[action]] is Worth Fighting For, London [[ethics|ethical]]. She is not in flight from responsibility and New Yorkis not afraid of [[desire]]. Her [[act]] is disinterested; she does not consider the claims of her [[ego]] for [[happiness]]. She does not procrastinate [[about]] something she [[knows]] she must do. [[Antigone]] represents a [[principle]] of [[ethics|ethical conduct]]: Versoshe [[acts]] according to her [[desire]] and that [[desire]] is the [[desire]] of the [[Other]]. p. 154</ref></blockquote> ==See Also==* [[Masculinity]] [[Category:Literature]][[Category:Culture]][[Category:Ethics]][[Category:People]]
