Male transvestitism, a complex and overdetermined symptom, is a combination of fetishism and female identification. The fetishism denies castration by refusal to acknowledge that the woman has no penis. The female identification means 'I love my mother in me'. The transvestite therefore represents a woman under whose clothes a penis is hidden. The need to display the clothes (exhibitionism) represents the need to display the penis, thereby relieving castration anxiety. The character deviations depend on the concept of femininity, essentially an imitation of the mother.