ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces some of the convolutions of thinking transcendence itself at all. The role played by transcendence in Irigaray's quest is critical and similarly complex. There is the sense in which Irigaray clearly seeks to transcend and surpass the present economy. For, paradoxically, the feminisation of the soul presents the greatest possibility and the greatest obstacle to be negotiated by a woman in search of herself and her transcendence: in search, that is, of her soul. The feminisation of the soul is a part of the identification of woman as / with transcendence within and against which Irigaray is working. The role played by transcendence in Irigaray's quest is critical and similarly complex. For Irigaray, the question of transcendence is intimately bound with the question of sexual difference which has so marked her work.
