The tragic deadlock and the comic perspective in the psychoanalysis ethics It is an analysis of Lacan’s commentary on Sophocles’ play Antigone presented at his seminar on The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, aiming at inquiring about the reach and limits of the tragic designation of desire. Subsequently, we try to ransom the Lacanian interest in the Ancient Comedy by examining some passages of the Aristophanes’ theater, exploring the contributions of this perspective to the ethics of psychoanalysis.
Ancient theater; psychoanalysis; ethics