%0 Journal Article
%T From Psychoanalysis to Politics. Antigone as a Revolutionary in Judith Butler and Slavoj  i ek
%A Sarah De Sanctis
%J Opticon1826
%D 2012
%I Ubiquity Press
%R 10.5334/opt.ai
%X In this paper I will analyse two contemporary readings of Sophocle's Antigone: the one proposed by Judith Butler in the influential Antigone's Claim (2000) and the response to it by Slavoj  i ek in Interrogating the Real (2005), Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) and other works. Both readings stem from a psychoanalytical (Lacanian) approach in order to face social and political issues. After providing the reader with an investigation of Butler's and  i ek's interpretations, I will draw a comparison of the two, showing that, for both, Antigone is a revolutionary figure that challenges the established social order.
%K Judith Butler
%K Slavoj Zizek
%K Antigone
%K act
%K politics
%K psychoanalysis
%U http://www.opticon1826.com/article/view/185