Judith Butler on Zizek:
For if woman did exist, it seems that, by this logic, she could only exist to castrate. Zizek’s interpretation of the real has at least three implications that I will for the most part only indicate: first, the real, understood as the threatening force of the law, is the threat of punishment which induces a necessary loss, where that loss, according to the oedipal logic, is figured as the feminine, as that which is outside the circuit of discursive exchange…
