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 | | She rebels against both the Lacanian linguistic structure where "the phallus is a signifier
intended to designate as a whole the effects of the signified" (Lacan 40) and the sexual role confining women as a passive object. |
 | | Through feminine writing, woman "derives pleasure from this gift of alterability" (890); her very inability to perform through rigid language gives her cause to rejoice, for it is through the myriad she that woman expresses herself as the "dispersible, prodigious, stunning, desirous and capable of others, of the other woman that she will be" (890). |
 | | Unorganized through male dominated forms, the woman as medusa is woman as giver, no longer a commodity in a masculine economy but creative of "life, thought, [and] transformation" (893) who "rejoices" (892) precisely in her dimensionless freedom from "phallocentric values" (893). |
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