ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author selects Antigone to speak about the real and the beautiful, and their relation in psychoanalysis. Antigone's path of desire is oriented by the conjunction in so far as it is supported and accompanied by fantasy. Fantasy and crossing come to form inseparable pair, another junction where Lacan situates the text of Sophocles: first to construct it, then to cross it. If the experience of Antigone orients the logic of the pass, at least in its nominal and poetic sense of making and constructing it, it is because this logic includes the experience of the beyond, of passing beyond immanently. Antigone's beauty emerges in connection with the real as the real without law. The sublime is always striking, causing a certain disorientation because the subject encounters the unlimited and the unaccounted for. This experience of too-much sends the subject in the direction of the symptom.
