antigone
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Why this hatred of authority?
Authority resembles those secret agents dear to Graham Greene who conceal their identity so as not to lose it further during a bad encounter. It still has a few admirers who are fond of it and deploy treasures of ingenuity to define it, redefine it, so that it is understood in its time. To do this, they bring it closer to the Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (7/7. Love)
7th and final part: Love Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied; Creon, on the other hand, wants to assert himself as king and demonstrate his power. Antigone favors family ties that embody love and reveal a being. Creon establishes his power by signing a bill that must Continue reading
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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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What is it to be above ground?
The most illuminating example of human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ are talking together and Peter insists that his master believe his devotion is completely sincere. Thus, Jesus tells him that before the rooster crows, he will have denied him three times. The first place 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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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