Conversation so far:
What is Performative Acts and Gender Consitution?
Butler argues that the performance of gender itself creates gender.
Additionally, she compares the performativity of gender to the performance of the theater.
How does she compare them?
She brings many similarities, including the idea of each individual functioning as an actor of their gender.
Was her argument well received?
However, she also brings into light a critical difference between gender performance in reality and theater performances.
What is the difference/?
She explains how the theater is much less threatening and does not produce the same fear that gender performances often encounter.
What is the result of this?
Butler uses Sigmund Freud's notion of how a person's identity is modeled in terms of the normal.
Where did she publish this piece?
She revises Freud's notion of this concept's applicability to lesbianism.

Question: How does she revise this?
Self-contained rewrite: How does Judith Butler revise Freud's notion?