Antigoné: a csapda
Antigone: the Trap

Summary/Abstract: The existence of the human being is a mediated existence in the space of liminality. But how can we exist in a mediated form? Is our existence self-identical in a given space where we are not actually present? These are also important questions for the 21st century. One of the possible answers to these questions is represented by the archetype of Antigone, who can manifest herself as an intense presence by belonging to non-being in Sophocles’ tragedy. In tragedy, those who exist are confronted with nothingness. Nothingness and the existent are complementary elements of reality. Antigone can only exist by burying her brother, by doing the right thing according to the will of the gods, by siding with them, but this involves physical annihilation. The encounter with transcendence leads to the enrichment of being – in tragedy, in the theatre, in the spectator.

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