이리가레의 안티고네- 양가적 위치에 선 여성

Abstract

This article aims at understanding the meanings of Antigone as a figure of feminine subject in the analysis of Sophocles’ “Antigone” of Luce Irigaray. “Antigone” is a significant tragedy for many philosophers like Hegel and feminists. Among them, Irigaray is the most important feminist philosopher who reinterprets Antigone by criticizing Hegel. However Irigaray’s Antigone is often misunderstood as an ideal model of female subject or resistant heroin. Moreover some critics regard that Irigaray unquestioningly accepts Hegel’s theory in which sexual division between men and women in the obligation of protecting family or state, law of divine or law of human is naturally determined. In order to correct these misunderstandings, I examine Irigaray’s discussion on Hegel and her own interpretations of “Antigone.” She show us that, in the androcentral culture, the dialectical relation between two sexes is impossible, and the feminine is excluded from the process of evolution of Spirit as well as reduced to the masculine. The tragedy and Hegel’s thought are both the site of that exclusion and reduction. Here, Antigone is still a production of a culture written by men alone, while she claims her proper desire. That is, she is not just heroin who stands against the male human law, but a character who reflect women’s ambivalent position in the patriarchal order.