A Political Value of Love in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, against the Regime og Brothers
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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra shows how love could give an alternative value against the regime of brothers in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. This trial to find a new political value in love accompanies a critical perspective on the serious harm the western civilization has brought out. In the play, the regime of brothers consisted of the Roman triumvirate, Caesar, Antony, and Lepidus, though representing the ideal of Roman empire, is closely associated with imperialism, nationalism, and racism. Freud, in his Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, defining the group as the constitution of group members under the ideal or transcendental leader, points out that this group lies in conflict with love. Freud also states that group includes in it the cruel hostility against others, whereas love shows a creative power that could cross the national and racial boundaries. As love is closely related with women group alienates women first. Therefore, thinking of women in the political realm means embracing not only the first others, woman but also other political sense of others, national and racial strangers. This hostile relationship between the regime of brothers and love can be each compared to the masculine and the feminine side in Lacan's sexuation. If the regime of brothers is related with the masculine subjectivity that assumes a certain exception, love is connected to the feminine subjectivity, its inconsistency or not-wholeness, which does not include an exception. In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra consistently shows the feminine side's not-all subjectivity through her masquerade. Antony undergoes a subjective transformation which is affected by his love with Cleopatra, from the external division between his love and duty, to the internal division that indicates a shame about his being, his split subjectivity. In psychoanalysis, love, founded on a non-imaginary, non-natural, and non-human theory of sexual difference, is to mark a sexual impossibility, not the sexual fantasy of harmony. Antony and Cleopatra's not-all subjectivities and their love confirm this love that exceeds the sexual fantasy. This love provides a new political value against Caesar's imperial conquest.
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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra shows how love could give an alternative value against the regime of brothers in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. This trial to find a new political value in love accompanies a critical perspective on the serious harm the western civilization has brought out. In the play, the regime of brothers consisted of the Roman triumvirate, Caesar, Antony, and Lepidus, though representing the ideal of Roman empire, is closely associated with imperialism, nationalism, and racism. Freud, in his Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, defining the group as the constitution of group members under the ideal or transcendental leader, points out that this group lies in conflict with love. Freud also states that group includes in it the cruel hostility against others, whereas love shows a creative power that could cross the national and racial boundaries. As love is closely related with women group alienates women first. Therefore, thinking of women in the political realm means embracing not only the first others, woman but also other political sense of others, national and racial strangers. This hostile relationship between the regime of brothers and love can be each compared to the masculine and the feminine side in Lacan's sexuation. If the regime of brothers is related with the masculine subjectivity that assumes a certain exception, love is connected to the feminine subjectivity, its inconsistency or not-wholeness, which does not include an exception. In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra consistently shows the feminine side's not-all subjectivity through her masquerade. Antony undergoes a subjective transformation which is affected by his love with Cleopatra, from the external division between his love and duty, to the internal division that indicates a shame about his being, his split subjectivity. In psychoanalysis, love, founded on a non-imaginary, non-natural, and non-human theory of sexual difference, is to mark a sexual impossibility, not the sexual fantasy of harmony. Antony and Cleopatra's not-all subjectivities and their love confirm this love that exceeds the sexual fantasy. This love provides a new political value against Caesar's imperial conquest.
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