My Antigone: the Fate of the Daughters of Great Fathers

The final qualifying work "My Antigone: the fate of the daughters of great fathers" is devoted to the problems of the oedipal conflict in the triangulation of the great Oedipus, his daughter Antigone and mother Jocasta. In particular, the paper examines the prerequisites for the formation of the "Antigone syndrome" in the girl's psyche - the totality of her psychosexual features, which directs her development to sacrificial service to her father, the expansion of her phallic part and the rejection of the feminine principle associated with female pleasure, marriage and motherhood. In the theoretical part, the prerequisites for the formation of the syndrome, emanating from paternal-maternal figures, siblings, collisions with various frustrations and the search for overcoming them, are studied in detail. The heroic essence of Antigone is justified by the neurosis of the sacrificial love of the daughter towards the great father, which triggers a hysterical whirlpool of relations between objects of triangulation, where the sexual component of the relationship is pushed into the unconscious, continues its pulsation there and finds resolution in a series of altruistic capitulations of Antigone. In the practical part of the study, theoretical conclusions are confirmed in the fates of Anna Freud and Alexandra Tolstoy - using psychoanalytic works on female sexuality, hysteria, oedipal conflict, as well as the source texts of Sophocles and his interpretation by Freud, the author concludes about the direct parallels between the Theban drama, Freud's psychoanalytic discoveries and their real incarnations in the life scenarios of daughters-Antigonus. Thus, "Oedipus the king" in the psychoanalytic refraction given by Freud finds its continuation in both "Oedipus in the Column" and "Antigone", where the structure of the oedipal conflict of Antigone, its development and resolution are traced.