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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
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (4/7. Freedom)
Antigone did not come to life at dusk. Antigone is born with dawn. It is at daybreak that Antigone becomes anti, which means facing, not against. As the Argive army ebbs, Antigone emerges from the shadows where she might have resided all her life, not to solve the riddle of the Sphinx, as her Continue reading
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Funerals
Funerals serve to aim with diabolical precision a dart that bursts the abscess of pain to let it flow gently and smoothly like a sick person's IV drip, it hydrates the one who remains on the edge of the shore of the living, it brings him the comfort of always being a little with Continue reading
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The Meaning… of Funerals
The contemporary world is getting excited by using the phrase, faire sens, a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression, make sense. It is comforting to repeat this expression to oneself without it actually having any... meaning, we thus pick up little things that make sense, but what are these mini-meanings found on the ground almost by chance? What are these Continue reading
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The penalty
Pain is like the undertow that comes and goes languidly, without languishing, on the hieratic rock that plays its role as scapegoat. It submerges it almost every time and, if it misses its mark, if it does not completely tame the rock in the moment, it never resigns itself, it always resumes Continue reading
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Freedom darling!
Antigone is free, and since freedom is constantly being earned, it would be fair to say that Antigone liberates herself, because we never stop liberating ourselves, and learning to liberate ourselves. Freedom is the most repressed gift, because freedom represents truth; it is the best interpreter of life. It tames destiny and calls Continue reading
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The permanent conversion
Contrary to what is often said or believed, tradition requires constant conversion. Tradition is not a sinecure, a life spent at the spa! Tradition requires constant effort. And even the most important effort: not to forget. There is no tradition unless it is living, and living Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
What a fuss about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time was based on lineage and belonging to a city. Identity was imbued with roots. Family and city gathered under a virtual banner everything that others needed to know about themselves. Continue reading
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Relativism is the horse dealer!
Relativism proves to be a gentle companion. Relativism is Abbé Donissan's horse dealer. One can travel in his company. He doesn't bore, he stays in his place, and he demonstrates unfailing empathy. However, he doesn't know compassion. Is this a problem? More of an advantage; he doesn't contradict, he agrees. Continue reading
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Become yourself...
Isn't becoming oneself always about becoming a little bit of someone else? What can someone become who doesn't move towards who they are? We must constantly bridge the gap between who we are and who we believe we are. What can someone who doesn't know who they are embody? Continue reading
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The quest for identity
In its mad quest to make people believe that we can choose everything all the time, the modern era has methodically replaced being with having. Yet this logic, this ideology, has its limits: certain things cannot be acquired, among them: otherness. Living one's identity, being what one is, inhabiting one's name, allowing intimacy and Continue reading
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Based on the values
Authority has lost its nobility along with humility. Authority has become a synonym for implacable order, thoughtless force, and tyranny. What an inversion of values! Whereas, according to Antigone, authority prevented tyranny! The modern era has this impression of authority because it has been trampled underfoot by Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity sets in in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody action or reaction? What moves Antigone? Reaction never exists by itself, whereas action needs no one; it legitimizes itself in the act. Action always inaugurates something. Unlike what is often Continue reading
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Hannah Arendt on human life
Modern theories whose raison d'être is to confuse the nature of man and thus give him an overabundant belief in his person discuss this permanent confusion. This permanent confusion uses Simone de Beauvoir's thinking on human life. The permanent confusion, the uprooting, the infantilization... We must tell man that he Continue reading