Why this hatred of authority?
Authority resembles those secret agents so dear to Graham Greene, who conceal their identity to avoid losing it further in a bad encounter. It...
Label: Antigone
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...
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...
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 on the other hand, the education (culture) that we...
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...
The funeral
Funerals serve to point, with diabolical precision, a dart that bursts the abscess of grief, allowing it to flow out gently and smoothly...
The meaning… of funerals
The contemporary world is abuzz with the phrase "to make sense," a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression. It is...
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...
The permanent conversion
Contrary to what is often said or believed, tradition requires ongoing conversion. Tradition is not a sinecure, a life lived in the past...
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...
Relativism is the horse trader!
Relativism proves to be a gentle companion. Relativism is like Father Donissan's horse dealer. One can travel in his company. He is never boring, he...
Becoming oneself…
Isn't becoming oneself always about becoming someone else? What can become of someone who doesn't journey toward their true self? One must constantly fill the void...
The quest for identity
In its mad quest to make us believe that we can choose everything all the time, the modern era has methodically replaced being with having. Yet this logic...