Woman is the symptom of man, caught in the hysterical game of demanding that he refuse her demand, precisely to the extent to which she is submitted to the phallic enjoyment. … Woman redeems man by renouncing phallic enjoyment. (What we have here is the exact opposite to Weininger where man redeems-destroys woman by overcoming his phallicity.) This is what Wagner was not able to confront, and the price to be paid for this avoidance fully to assume the “feminization” of Parsifal after he enters the domain “beyond the phallus” was the fall into perversion. - Slavoj Zizek