Women have been constructed as maternal, bodily, and animal-like, so they have no access to thought nor Reason and are not selves. Unique and necessary. But in itself. Man seeks this sufficiency. Irigaray suggests that man's lack of space entices him to confuse women and God.
Women are that which represents the nostalgia of womb memory.
Love of the self, for man, is a pursuit of a long-lost envelope, container, womb, mother, and warm place. It is this female other he peruses over and over again. In this treatment of women for men to find their love of self, the feeling of completion, women have no space of their own and no access to laws of rationality. Man's coveting of women produces her in absence of a proper place to be. God and women symbolize what men lack.