Herein lies Tiresias's problem: what is woman? His mistake is to take her as she is. Now, not even woman escapes his new total project: he needs to reinvent everything. Instead, to understand woman, Tiresias becomes woman: in this way, he understands otherness, diversity, and novelty as a preexisting and preconstituted given, the adequacy of which is the condition for his knowledge. Even when he suspects a dialectic of reciprocal influence at work in human relationships, he sees this suspicion in the aberrant perspective of domination, struggle, and defeat. Tiresias conceives of femininity as an immutable element, an essence. The transition from the masculine condition (necessarily homosexual, because it is founded on identity) to the feminine condition (necessarily nymphomaniac, because it is founded on diversity) unfolds on the basis of an equivocal undercurrent: that masculinity and femininity are radically opposed and mutually exclusive worldviews. Instead, they are two complementary and equally abominable sides of the same coin: the true overcoming of just one of these terms implies a critique of both and of the historical and social situation they represent.