The Dilemma Of Identity

As a model of tragic text,the content and purport of Antigone by Sophocles have been interpreted and rewritten by many famous thinkers in later generations.For example,Hegelr’s interpretation of ethical philosophy,Kierkegaard’s interpretation of Antigone and Antigone in ancient Greece,Lacan’s desire,female critics Hegel and Judith Butler in the context of post-structuralism have constructed a new model of identity recognition against the gender characteristics,gender ethics,life and death,and consanguineous relatives of Antigone identity.The reason why Antigone identity has received so much attention is not only because of her as a tragic classic character,but also because of her attraction in the predicament of identity as the subject of the text.The main performance is first: it is difficult to admit the kinship caused by incest.Hegel and Lacan both regard Antigone as the representative figure of family kinship,the former is on the side of the law of God opposed to the law of man,the latter regards Antigone as a typical kinship,and the family has the ability to open the symbolic boundary but can’t enter the symbolic boundary as a social structure,but is placed at the boundary.The feminist philosopher Irigaray also regards Antigone as the patron saint of the family,but through the behavior of burying his brother,it highlights the model of the transition from patrilineal tradition to maternal tradition on the basis of kinship.Judith Butler questions the pureness of Antigone’s kinship identity,as the fuzziness of the identity of the descendants of incest and the incest lust for his brother in the discourse behavior.The second aspect lies in the dilemma of gender identity: Hegel and Irigaray naturally regard Antigone’s gender identity as female,especially Hegel further abstracts the generalized female identity into maternal identity.Irigaray doubted Antigone gender identity in his own consanguineous discussion,and then set up a female model by defending consanguineous relatives.Butler believes that consanguinity destroys the identity of gender relations,has to regard Antigone as "male",and even further put forward Antigone negates heterosexual foundation and has incest love for his brother.Third,can Antigone act as a feminist political spokesman? It also shows the ambiguity of her political identity.Hegel excluded women as non-citizens from the political order,and Lacan also regarded the kinship represented by Antigone as the way to open the symbolic world and could not enter the symbolic world.Butler believed that Hegel,Lacan and Irigaray all regarded Antigone as a "former political" figure opposite to politics and did not enter the political realm.Although herprovocative actions and words have obvious political implications,Butler’s interpretation of Antigone is based on feminist resistance to politics.This paper further abstracts the identity dilemma in her image on the basis of Hegel,Lacan,Irigaray and Judith Butler’s ethical gender criticism centered on Antigone: the kinship of vague incest,the indistinguishable gender identity in discourse and behavior,and the political dilemma whether she can be the spokesman of feminism.And these identity dilemmas ultimately lead not only to the tragedy of Antigone’s death,but also to the tragedy of Creon.Antigone provides us with a model for thinking about irregular identity.like Antigone,they are as free from concepts and boundaries as Antigone,and whether these so-called prerequisites are already man-made.When all crisis dilemmas break out,the problem of identity dilemmas will be highlighted.? The ethical gender of political kinship is no longer the condition of distinction,and these ideologies will disintegrate,so the interpretation of these ideologies is also unstable.