"For the man, a surplus jouissance--what he is denied by castration--is trapped by what Lacan calls 'the object a'. This object is first felt as a lack in being by all subjects, an alienation consequent to entry into the symbolic, which the man deals with by seeking a fantasy in the woman. This search for a fantasy in the woman can take place equally between a biological man and a biological woman, between two biological men or between two biological women . . . ."
--Elizabeth Wright, Lacan and Postfeminism, 29-30.