Öznellik ve liminalite temelinde antigone miti

What is described in this thesis is the myth of Antigone, which will always be rediscovered, and which defies centuries with its ability to constantly say something about it. According to Butler, this myth, about which a lot has been written, was a symbol of the feminine revolt against statism for feminist theorists like Irigaray, while it represented the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy for thinkers like Hegel. But somehow it continued to be a representation of the relationship between power, authority and women by different disciplines and thinkers from Lacan to Zizek. According to Zizek (2016), Lacan emphasizes that Antigone assumes the border position of the symbolic order against the kinship order and is a representation of reaching outside the order. There is, mainly, considerable literature on the myth of Antigone. But precisely for this reason, the reasons for the representation of Antigone that defy the centuries have been addressed here. In this study, while addressing the effects of myth on the collective consciousness, it is shown how the mythical thought is kept alive through rituals. The marginal position of Antigone, formed by the exclusion of Polynices from the death ritual by the power, is examined with the concept of liminality, which expresses a certain ritual order created by Van Gennep and developed by Turner. While the burgeoning process of the people on the threshold, which is likened to being in the womb by Turner, is explained under the concept of subjectivity, together with Kristeva's concepts such as chora, abject and poetic language, which will be understood in relation to each other, while using the concepts of thinkers such as Guattari and Levinas, how the subjectivity is pre-individual. It is shown that it can be constructed as a singularity in moments of crisis. Finally, it is discussed how Antigone, one of the founding myths of Western thought, was reconstructed in both the discursive and creative act of a woman writer, even after centuries. At this point, while Durkheim's concept of collective consciousness explains the situation, it is seen how Kristeva's concept of intertextuality affects the writer's collective consciousness in the literary dimension. Keywords: subjectivity, liminality, myth, rite, chora, abject, poetic language, collective consciousness, intertextuality.