ABSTRACT
Antigone can still teach the reader a great deal with her own example: a destiny, chosen in defiance of the despotic tyrant claiming to act on behalf of the salvation (health) of the city. Each change and restriction the polis imposes regarding burial rites recalls and commemorates the emblematic tragedy of Antigone that Sophocles. Surprisingly missing from that list of thinkers is Sigmund Freud, whose keen knowledge of the theater and Greek myths made the history and destiny of Oedipus, Antigone's father, a central focus of his theory of the psyche. Antigone evokes another law that differs from the tyrant's and that for her is superior: a law that is chthonic, of the mother, in confrontation with a celestial, phallocratic power. From the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, one must take into account the desire to express a “last wish,” notarized or not.
