the awareness that there is no hidden content, makes [a woman] even more enigmatic. He desperately clings to the conviction that, behind the cold manipulative surface, there must be a heart of gold to be saved, […] and that her cold manipulative approach is just a kind of defensive strategy.

Slavoj Zizek on the femme fatale in detective novels and noir films (via alterities) http://ift.tt/2bNBbEi