The second diagram destroys the old harmony: the signifiers‘ladies’ and ‘gentlemen’ are attached to identical doors. The ‘same’ doorsare made to enter the differential system of language, so that we are madeto see them as ‘different’. In the same way, the word ‘woman’ is a signi-fier, not the biological female: there is no simple correspondence betweena specific body and the signifier ‘woman’.

‘against the grain’