“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.”
“A woman is not complimentary to a man, but she embodies his lack (which is why Lacan can say that a beautiful woman is a perfect incarnation of man's castration).”
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The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
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