Cecilia Sjöholm The Antigone Complex | sku-38409385

Cecilia Sjöholm's The Antigone Complex (sku-38409385) is listed under International Law Books. The hardcover asks what psychoanalysis might look like if it took Antigone, rather than Oedipus, as its model. Sjöholm examines how philosophical accounts of femininity have treated women's desire as excessive or deficient in relation to ethical rules.

She discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's work and readings of Antigone by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. The book introduces the "Antigone complex" to examine feminine desire and its relation to ethics. It asks what determines actions one must take, as distinct from actions one ought to take.