This chapter begins by summarising the self emerging in the previous chapters as a relational being, in relation to itself, to others and to the world. It is this relationality which the notion of ‘soul’ expresses. Having a soul means being dependent on that element in which a being lives – oxygen for mammals, water for fish, earth and light for plants. But that ‘gift of life’ is in each case singular: to be is to be ensouled, and that soul though general is what is peculiar to each living being; the living body is what connects the self to the earth, the atmosphere in which it has its being. The chapter explores this notion of soul discussing both the animal and vegetal soul, showing how both are constitutive of the self, but how the vegetal soul tends towards a refocusing of the self through the plurality of its being and its freedom from concern with itself, its reproduction without possession and the associated oblivion and disassociation of vegetal intoxication.