It is not quite the feminine as surface that is opposed to the masculine as depth, but the feminine as indistinctness of sur- face and depth.Or as indifference to the authentic and the ar- tificial. Joan Riviere, in "Feminite sans mascarade" (La Psychoanalyse no .7), makes a fundamental claim - one that containswithin itallseduction:"Whether femininity be authen- tic or superficial, it is fundamentally the same thing."