“O que aconteceu aos herdeiros de Édipo?” A recepção clássica e a crítica à psicanálise na leitura de Judith Butler de Antígona

Abstract

Our hypothesis is that the originality of Judith Butler's interpretation of Antigone can only be understood in light of existing philosophical interpretations of this tragedy and criticisms of the understanding of the psychoanalytic tradition regarding gender and kinship, particularly as they appear in the Complex of Oedipus. According to this, we analyse some interpretations of Antigone belonging to the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition (Hegel, Frédéric Gros, Jacques Lacan etc.) and also some critics made to the Freudian interpretation of Oedipus (Jessica Benjamin, Juliet Mitchell and Butler herself) to delimit the contribution by Judith Butler’s take of Antigone and for the philosophical discussion of the notions of gender and kinship.