QUO VADIS? A ÉTICA PSICANALÍTICA PARA ALÉM DE ROMA

This paper addresses some nuances of the tragedy experienced by Antigone, contrasting it with the annihilation of the contemporary subject operated by the capitalist discourse. It states, beyond the ethics that seeks a good in accordance to the Kantian imperative, the psychoanalytic ethics –an ethic...

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Published in:Affectio societatis (Medellín) 2014-01, Vol.11 (20), p.1-11
Main Author: Mariana Rodrigues Festucci Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Antigone
contemporaneity
psychoanalytic ethics
tragedy
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Summary:This paper addresses some nuances of the tragedy experienced by Antigone, contrasting it with the annihilation of the contemporary subject operated by the capitalist discourse. It states, beyond the ethics that seeks a good in accordance to the Kantian imperative, the psychoanalytic ethics –an ethics governed by the dialectics of desire, the only one possible to be determined in the analyst's praxis. For this purpose, it starts from Aristotle's concept of Ethics and then it points out what is at stake in Lacan's reading of Sophocles' play. The tragic nature of psychoanalytic ethics is here highlighted along with its relevance to rescue the contemporary subject from deletion
ISSN:0123-8884
0123-8884