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Her Mother Her Self: The Ethics of the Antigone Family Romance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Lisa Walsh
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Abstract

This essay discusses the implications of Irigaray's readings of the Antigone in the construction of a feminist ethics. By focusing on the gaps and intersections between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian phenomenology as formulative of Irigaray's eventual call for an ethics of sexual difference, 1 emphasize the inevitability of rethinking the functions of historicity, femininity, and maternity in the formation of new models of intersubjectivity.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Summer 1999 , pp. 96 - 125
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Copyright © 1999 by Hypatia, Inc.

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