“Antigone emerges as a figure of pure desire precisely because, with her words and actions, she incites in others this tenacious question: What does she want? She states what she wants from the outset, yet there is no one in the play who is not baffled at one point or another by this question: OK, she wants to bury Polyneices, but what does she actually want?” PsychoanalysisAntigoneLacan Book:Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax Source: Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax
“The other concept of truth in Lacan situates the truth, so to speak, in the midst of reality. Here, the discontinuities, ruptures, standstills, and crises of reality are places or points of its truth. The truth is not some impossible and lethal Beyond that can be reached only by transgressing the limits of the Symbolic and the Imaginary –Lacan comes to present it as something that speaks between the lines, detectable in changes of discursivity, in the disturbances, interruptions, and slips of the discourse...” RealTruthImaginarySymbolicLacanDiscoursesAlenka ZupancicDiscursivity Book:The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two Source: The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two