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What did Lacan mean by 'l'entre-deux-morts'?
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#82276. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Jun 20 07 8:48 PM)
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zbeckabee

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Lacan laudes Oedipus at Colonus who calls down curses before dying, and he associates him with Antigone, walled up alive, who has not given in at all. Both have rejected the right to live in order to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - entre-deux-morts - that is immortality.
http://www.lacan.com/seminars1b.htm
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