April 2017
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Antigone, rebellious 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, and their community. Women reserved for themselves the mirror that was part of beauty, femininity, and seduction. The reflection is everywhere. "There is no place that does not Continue reading
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Identify
Identity is divided on the one hand into a base that is within us without us being able to derive any particular merit from it, our nature and the education (culture) that we have received, and a constitutive movement of life that discovers elements that are not listed by our nature or our education, but which must Continue reading
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Splitting according to Creon
Creon divides his interlocutors into two groups: 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 with those who give themselves body and soul to Continue reading
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The enantiodromos, the fork of life
Creon transforms into a tyrant. He becomes what he imagines he should be. It is the enantiodromos, this moment and this place among the Greeks, which reveals the true nature of a man when, at the crossroads, he must confront the choice of the road to follow. The enantiodromos is the fork where the one who becomes… Continue reading
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Take on yourself, a transfiguration
It is difficult to understand in our time where individualism reigns that the action of taking on the fault that one does not think of oneself, that one thinks of the other, but which necessarily is also one's own, necessarily, because I have already committed this kind of fault by action or by omission, this fault is not unknown to me, the action of taking on the Continue reading
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To be and to Have
What belongs to us matters less than what we are, and we are wrong to believe, under the wing of envy, that what belongs to us can define what we are. Continue reading