Being yourself
Being oneself never fades into habit. Identity is a search and an affirmation, a permanent enantiodromos, like a state of siege...
Category: Antigone
The revolutionary and forgiveness
The revolutionary has no appetite for forgiveness, for he detests the gift that seems suspect to him and the other with whom he could have sealed his future. Po...
The will alone or the will alone
Antigone knows that man must not rely solely on his will. Here too, it is a question of power swelling with its own pride. Willpower alone becomes corrupted...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...
Man and Animals According to Aristotle
From this comes the obvious conclusion that the State is a fact of nature, that man is naturally a social being, and that he who remains savage...
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 relatives, their peers...
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...
The enantiodromos, the fork of life
Creon is transformed into a tyrant. He becomes what he imagines he should be. This is the enantiodromos, this moment and place for the Greeks, which reveals his true nature...
Taking it upon oneself, a transfiguration
It is difficult to understand in our time, where individualism reigns, that the act of taking responsibility for what one does not think of oneself, what one thinks of the other...
To Be and To Have
What belongs to us matters less than who we are, and we are wrong to believe, under the wing of envy, that what belongs to us can define who we are...
What does it mean to be out of touch with reality?
The most illuminating example concerning human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ speak together and Peter insists...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (4/7. Freedom)
Antigone did not come to life at dusk. Antigone was born with the dawn. It is at daybreak that Antigone becomes "anti," which means facing, not con...
Beloved freedom!
Antigone is free, and since freedom is constantly being won, it would be accurate to say that Antigone is liberating herself, because one never stops being liberated, and learning...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
So many stories about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time is based on...