ABSTRACT
The debate between an ontological difference with an assumed neutral subject and the dual subjectivity of sexual difference cannot simply be ignored, even though, as noted by Elizabeth Grosz, it is undecidable. Elizabeth Grosz makes a similar point, stating that Irigaray's project is directed by emphasis on the 'lived body' a body inherently interrelated with the "social body". In an Ethics of Sexual Difference, Irigaray argues strongly that the acknowledgment of ontological sexual difference necessarily requires a radical refiguring of all subjective relations. Sexual difference function either as invisible but traceable supports or as the explicit objects of secondarization or derision in a philosophical system. Irigaray fully embraces the binary of sexual difference, immerses subjectivity in its irreducible existence, whilst Derrida seems to be trying to open tendrillike pathways which destabilise the definitive division. The order of thinking in linear time or logical development, could be considered as veiling the more central question of 'operation' or 'activity' itself.
