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Ethics and the Splendor of Antigone. An Encounter with Charles Freeland, "Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan’s The Ethics of Psychoanalysis"

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  • In what follows, I will briefly analyze the first pages of the first essay in order to show where Freeland’s interpretation misses the point or goes wrong, letting this stand as exemplary for the book as a whole

  • Lacan is discussing what by all appearances seems to be a strikingly classical philosophical proposition: Ya D’LUN (“There is something of the one”)

  • I skip the series of other references Freeland makes in the following lines and quote only the sentence that takes up again the question of the “beginning point of ethics”: “Ethics arises only in relation to something other, some other source, something other than the pregiven desire for the Good or the a priori reign of moral law” (17)

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I will briefly analyze the first pages of the first essay in order to show where Freeland’s interpretation misses the point or goes wrong, letting this stand as exemplary for the book as a whole. I skip the series of other references Freeland makes in the following lines (all from the late Lacan) and quote only the sentence that takes up again the question of the “beginning point of ethics”: “Ethics arises only in relation to something other, some other source, something other than the pregiven desire for the Good or the a priori reign of moral law” (17).

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