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According to Lacan, masculinity involves the posture or pretence of having the phallus, while femininity involve the ''masquerade'' of being the phallus.
The second phase of Lacan's thinking on sexual difference comes from a late seminar, seminar XX - ''Encoure: On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge 1972-1973'' - and concerns the 'structures of sexuation'.
In this late phase Lacan continutes to develop masculinity and femininity as structures that are available to both men and women and not related to one's [[biologi]], but what now determines a masculine and feminine structure si the type of ''jouissance'' one is able to attain - what LAcan called phallic ''jouissance'' and Other ''jouissance''.
We will explore thesehighly controversial ideas below.
=Freud and the Enigma of Feminine Sexuality=
