“He wants the woman he would never be. He wouldn’t be caught dead being her: therefore he wants her. She is his repudiated identification and the object of his desire.”
If you want a context to the above keep reading:
“Becoming a ‘man’ requires repudiating femininity as a precondition for the heterosexualization of sexual desire and its fundamental ambivalence. If a man becomes masculine by repudiating the feminine, where could that repudiation live except in an identification which his heterosexual career seeks to deny? Indeed, the desire for the feminine is marked by that repudiation.”
- From “The Psychic Life of Power” By: Judith Butler
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