Discusses the link between feminism and Lacan's ethics of sublimation by focusing on artistic texts - the logic of Antigone's disobedience of a edit of the state; the controversial silhouettes of the young black artist, Kara Walker; the Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman and the final gesture of the mother toward her daughter in "Stella Dallas". In the second half, Copjec examines the superegoic underside of ethics : the concept of radical evil originally proposed by Kant relating the arguments to artistic texts including Pasolini's Salò ; the film noir classic 'Laura' ; and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination.