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Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

I describe myself as a human being.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

To create something you must be something.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.