transcendental consciousness

is the name for ego and object together insofar as the ego is not a substance, but is actual only as directed toward something.

The Ego is not a substance, it is actual only as directed toward something... the Ego is known only as the 'substratum' of acts, but Ego and object together have no other name, which encompasses them both, than transcendental consciousness. (kolakowski 'husserl and the search for certitude: 68-9)

is the irreducible thinking ego or subject that makes possible objective inquiry.

Husserl's transcendental consciousness (the irreducible thinking ego or subject that makes possible objective inquiry) will have been transfigured into Dasein (the inherently social being who already operates with a pre-theoretical grasp of the a priori structures that make possible particular modes of Being);

transcendental consciousness, n.Definitions

transcendental consciousness