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is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it. Honore de Balzac

is a non-universal, unlike masculinity, which is a universal function founded upon the phallic exception (castration).

the definite article which precedes it. In French the definite article indicates universality, and this is precisely the characteristic that women lack... women 'do not lend themselves to generalisation, even to phallocentric generalisation' (Lacan, 1975b). Hence Lacan strikes through the definite article whenever it precedes the term femme in much the same way as he strikes through the A to produce the symbol for the barred Other, for like woman, the Other does not exist (see BAR). To press home the point, Lacan speaks of woman as 'not-all' (pas-toute... S20, 13)... unlike masculinity, which is a universal function founded upon the phallic exception (castration), woman is a non-universal which admits of no exception. Woman is compared to truth, since both partake of the logic of the not-all (there is no such thing as all women... it is impossible to say 'the whole truth') (Lacan, 1973a:64). (Evans 222)

is a severely limited being, incapable of the full range of human achievements and awareness.

Kierkegaard sees women as severely limited beings, incapable of the full range of human achievements and awareness. His philosophy exhibits a male bias similar to that of Hegel in its misogyny, distortions, and omissions'

is a symptom of a man, in the sense that a woman can only ever enter the psychic economy of men as a fantasy object (a), the cause of their desire.

Lacan goes on in 1975 to state that 'a woman is a symptom' (Lacan, 1974-5: seminar of 21 January 1975). More precisely, a woman is a symptom of a man, in the sense that a woman can only ever enter the psychic economy of men as a fantasy object (a), the cause of their desire. (Evans 1999: 222)

is a symptom of man means, not that man merely uses a woman to articulate his message. But, on the contrary, woman is the determining factor and man orients himself towards his symptom, he clings on it to give consistency to his life.

a Latin-American poet who accommodated the political tenor of his poetry to his most recent mistress: when his mistress was a proto-Fascist Rightist, he celebrated military discipline and patriotic spirit of sacrifice... when he got involved with a pro-Communist mistress, he started to celebrate guerilla warfare... later, he passed on to a hippy mistress and wrote about drugs and transcendental meditation. . . THIS is what 'woman as a symptom of man' means, not that man merely uses a woman to articulate his message on the contrary, woman is the determining factor: man orients himself towards his symptom, he clings on it to give consistency to his life. (Zizek 2006a .pdf)

is a symptom that pre-exist what it is a symptom of. A woman is a symptom wandering around in search of something to attach itself to as symptom.

Woman is a symptom of man' does this mean that a woman comes to ex-sist only when a man picks her up' So what is she prior to it' What if we conceive the idea of a symptom that pre-exist what it is a symptom of, so that we can consider women as symptoms wandering around in search of something to attach themselves to as symptoms or even just being satisfied with their role as empty symptoms' [5] (Zizek 2006a .pdf)

is an 'historical situation', a cultural construction suffered by the body in both how it acts and how it is perceived.

When Beauvoir claims that woman is an 'historical situation,' she emphasizes that the body suffers a certain cultural construction, not only through conventions that sanction and proscribe how one acts one's body, the 'act' or performance that one's body is, but also in the tacit conventions that structure the way the body is culturally perceived. Indeed, if gender is the cultural significance that the sexed body assumes, and if that significance is codetermined through various acts and their cultural perception, then it would appear that from within the terms of culture it is not possible to know sex as distinct from gender. The reproduction of the category of gender is enacted on a large political scale, as when women first enter a profession or gain certain rights, or are reconceived in legal or political discourse in significantly new ways. But the more mundane reproduction of gendered identity takes place through the various ways in which bodies are acted in relationship to the deeply entrenched or sedimented expectations of gendered existence' (Butler, Judith. 1988).

is an animal usually living in the vicinity of man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

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