April 2017
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Antigone, defiant and intimate (5/7. Authority)
Part 5: Authority In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves in the eyes of their family, their loved ones, their community. Women reserved for themselves the mirror, which was associated with beauty, femininity, and seduction. Reflection was everywhere. “There is no place that is not…” Continue reading
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Identify
Identity is divided, on the one hand, into a foundation that is within us, without which we can derive any particular merit—our nature and the education (culture) we have received—and, on the other hand, a constitutive movement of life that discovers elements not listed by our nature or our education, but which must… Continue reading
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The division according to Creon
Creon divides his interlocutors into two camps: those who are with him and those who are against him. He no longer negotiates and threatens those who oppose him. Force controls him, when force should only ever be used to protect, and this is always the case for those who give themselves body and soul to… Continue reading
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The enantiodromos, the fork of life
Creon is transformed into a tyrant. He becomes what he imagines he must be. This is the enantiodromos, that moment and place in Greek mythology, which reveals the true nature of a man when, at the crossroads, he must confront the choice of which path to follow. The enantiodromos is the fork where the one who becomes… Continue reading
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Taking it upon oneself, a transfiguration
It is difficult to understand in our age of individualism that the act of taking responsibility for a fault one doesn't believe is one's own, but rather that one believes is attributed to another, but which is necessarily also one's own, necessarily, because I have already committed this kind of fault through action or omission; this fault is not unfamiliar to me. The act of taking responsibility… Continue reading
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To Be and To Have
What belongs to us matters less than who we are, and we are wrong to believe, under the sway of envy, that what belongs to us can define who we are. Continue reading