ABSTRACT
What is the meaning of gender? Freud and other classical analysts derived their ideas about gender from their views on the anatomical difference between the sexes. Derrida (1976, 1978) argued that Western thought in general wishes to avoid uncertainty and to claim universal truth for the prevailing cultural categories of masculine and feminine. Thus, psychological rigidity is the norm vis-à-vis the category of gender. Derrida believed that masculinity and femininity are not opposites but actually coconstruct each other and have meaning only in their relation to each other.
