{"id":3594,"date":"2009-07-03T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:19:11","slug":"ate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/07\/03\/ate\/","title":{"rendered":"At\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hang\"><strong><em>At\u00e9<\/em>.<\/strong> In Greek, <em>ate<\/em> means either &#8220;destructive, delusional madness&#8221; or the &#8220;ruin&#8221; that follows from delusion. The concept has a close association with tragic action, where characters are often deluded by the gods or by their own arrogance into bringing about their own downfall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lacan takes <em>ate<\/em> and develops within it the idea of destruction as a boundary between life and death. Thus Lacan connects Antigone with the limit of the <em>symbolic order<\/em> (see below), a limit beyond which lie divine laws (the dictates of the gods) propelling Antigone&#8217;s defiance of Creon and her destruction as well.<em> Ate<\/em> is, therefore, &#8220;the limit of human existence that can be crossed only briefly  within life&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/bingweb.binghamton.edu\/~clas382a\/study_guides\/02-03_butler.htm\" target=\"_blank\">(Butler, Antigone 47).<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00e9. In Greek, ate means either &#8220;destructive, delusional madness&#8221; or the &#8220;ruin&#8221; that follows from delusion. The concept has a close association with tragic action, where characters are often deluded by the gods or by their own arrogance into bringing about their own downfall. Lacan takes ate and develops within it the idea of destruction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/07\/03\/ate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At\u00e9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dubash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}