[The European Conservative] Looking for Marta

Thirteen years later, a Netflix series revisits the mysterious, gruesome murder case that kept Spain for years in a state of shocked, anxious outrage.

In review: Dónde está Marta? (2021), Netflix miniseries.

"Burial,” wrote Sigmund Freud’s chief French disciple Jacques Lacan in a compendium of essays published posthumously as The Ethics of Psychoanalysis in 1998, “is the first sign in which we recognize humanity.” This oft-quoted citation has somewhat eclipsed the larger context Lacan sought to illustrate, namely, a commentary on Sophocles’ Antigone, a tragedy where three suicides — yet no burial — take place.

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