ABSTRACT
The transcendental object is that towards which the subject aims but which he will never possess. This transcendental object, because it is unattainable, returns the subject to passive sensibility: the subject is involved by the transcendental object, but he cannot involve it. The transcendental object, like God, appears as a construction, a creation, an invention – neither visible nor perceptible – of the philosophical subject, necessary for the completion of his own journey. But becoming woman also means maintaining for man – and for other women – the framework of transcendental objectivity. Such transcendence does not lie in a beyond which is fabricated by the author as a result of the necessities of the author's consciousness, or in an imposed beyond which alienates the author. Transcendence unveils itself in the other who is here present to the author, but irreducible to the author's rational perception, if not as other.
