Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex had proven to be an inadequate model for the understanding of femininity & feminine desire for many of those engaged in that issue from a social or political viewpoint, & Antigone enables us to discuss some of the most pertinent questions from new angles.
George Steiner, who considers Antigone to be the most canonical text of the West, posed the question. This book traces the relation between ethics & desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity & use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses & deficiencies in relation to ethical norms & rules. Sjoholm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of Antigone by G.W.F.Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Ingaray, Jacques Lacan & Judith Butler.
Table of contents:
1. Morality & the invention of feminine desire
2. Sexuality versus Recognition: Feminine Desire in the ethical order
3. The Purest Poem.... Heidegger's Antigone
4. From Oedipus to Antigone: Revisiting the question of feminine desire
5. Family Politics/Family Ethics: Butler, Lacan, & the Thing beyond the Object.
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