Antigone inhabits our intellectual and clinical domain: human rights lawyers, politicians, artists and writers cite her as an inspiration. She is at the same time a tragic figure who haunts us, living in the liminal space between life and death. This uncanny haunting is evocatively described by Lacan (1959) on Antigone “The ghosts who multiply in the vicinity of death”. In this paper I argue that whilst Antigone remains the heroine of Anouilh and others, she also is the deadened child unable to mourn. I argue that grieving any loss is profoundly compromised when the nature of the primal scene and the oedipal story is as polluted as Antigone's. As a young child she found a toxic story, the truth behind the image of the gilded family, “Antigone, your father is your brother. Your mother is your grandmother. You are the product of incest and murder”: the two great transgressions. This is further exacerbated by Oedipus denying Antigone the mourning rites of passage of knowing where and when he was buried. Using clinical material from Joanna's moving search for her biological mother and from Rufus' five times a week analysis, I illustrate the obstacles to mourning incurred when damaged oedipal stories prevail.