Capobianco sees a restaging of the basic alternatives of the possibility to “find our place or regain our lost place in the world”, on the one hand, or a fundamental unsettledness, on the other. He associates this latter reading with Jacques Derrida and deconstruction. This basic opposition between a Heidegger that would find a home in the world, as against one that valorizes transgression, is most emphatically staged in the final chapter, which returns to Antigone’s ‘Ode to Man’ in order to discuss commonalities in the readings of Heidegger and the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Capobianco’s afterword emphasizes maturation in Heidegger’s thought, from anxiety and homelessness to awe and humility.

In Slavoj Žižek’s view, it is actually a failing of Heidegger to claim that man can be at home. This defense of Lacan is in keeping with a variety of commentators who locate Heidegger’s error not in an awareness of transgression and death, but rather in a complicitous outlook that is not anxious enough.

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