Antigone as her own PR agent (Hegel's comical moment)

As told 3

“This is a comical moment. Why? Because Antigone is already her own PR agent. She already is thinking like, oh my God, I must invent a good image of myself.”
9:18 The Birth of Comedy out of the Spirit of Despair2015-11-21 · 1:12:21

“the only Habermasian in the play is Creon. The bad king... He gives reasons... And what is Antigone's answer? None! She says, 'No, I want because I want, I want...' She simply insists.”
57:43 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism2000-09-18 · 1:26:03

“Antigone is already her own PR agent. She already thinks like, oh my God, I must invent a good image of myself, how I will be perceived.”
9:55 Slavoj Žižek "To be or not to be”2015-11-21 · 38:01

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

comical moment (Hegel) ×2 the act ×1 Antigone as her own PR agent ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lina Wertmüller2 Jakob Ammann1 Colonel Francis Younghusband1 Roger Ebert1 Jela Krečič1 Herbert Marshall1 Jane Austen1 Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe1

alongside works

Design for Living2 The Odd One In2 Mansfield Park2 The Little Book of Hollywood Clichés (Roger Ebert)1 Lacan Seminar 6 (Le désir et son interprétation)1 Shame1 The Graduate1 The Name of the Rose2

Told together with

50% Pasqualino Settebellezze: survival through seducing the kapo 2 shared talks 40% Gulag double fish-head soup friendship 2 shared talks 29% Yugoslav Bureaucracy Cynicism 2 shared talks 20% Srebrenica 'with or without bones' land joke 2 shared talks 4% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

9:18 The Birth of Comedy out of the Spirit of Despair2015-11-21 · 1:12:21

Hegel reads Antigone's speech comparing herself to mythological sufferers as a comical moment: she is already acting as her own image consultant, observing herself from an impossible outside position while still on stage., illustrating comical moment (Hegel),comedy within tragedy,self-observation as comic device

57:43 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism2000-09-18 · 1:26:03

Creon in Sophocles' Antigone is actually the Habermasian, he gives reasons, argues his case, is communicatively rational. Antigone simply insists without argument: 'I want because I want.' Žižek takes this as the model of the Lacanian act., illustrating the act,Habermasian ethics,Antigone,Lacanian ethics

9:55 Slavoj Žižek "To be or not to be”2015-11-21 · 38:01

Hegel reads Antigone's final speech, comparing herself to mythical sufferers, as a comical moment: she has become her own PR agent, staging her image for posterity from an impossible outside position., illustrating the comical moment,Antigone as her own PR agent