We are now familiar with Luce Irigaray's argument, unpacked in previous chapters, that the emergence of an autonomous feminine subjectivity supported by an appropriate feminine imaginary and symbolic would enable us to establish a culture of sexuate difference and a ‘new era of History’ (Irigaray 1996a: 64). For this to happen, we must, as sexuate subjects, pass through our own narcissism and recognise that we are always in relation with the other. In doing so, we call into question the omnipotence of the (masculine) individual subject in a culture of narcissism that, according to Irigaray, founds and structures the western tradition. Irigaray recognises that the structures of the imaginary and symbolic are crucial for subject formation, but she reimagines autonomous feminine subjectivity according to a different symbolic/imaginary economy, in which the feminine subject would enter culture without sacrificing the relation with her sexuate body.