Eleanor's account of several decades in the life of her neighbour, Jess, and Jess's daughter Anna are inevitably inflected with her own subjectivity; and yet, borrowing from Jess's anthropological background, Eleanor presents her findings with a measured and studied neutrality.
If she were to answer "I say it because it is true", she writes, she would be eliminating her own subjectivity.
These are claims an actor makes about his or her interior subjectivity: feelings, moods, desires, beliefs, and the like.
In his mordant presence she always felt vulgar & self-indulgent, glum & fat, but this only drove home to her the grossness & subjectivity of her own temperament.
But Digges's imaginative foray into her son's subjectivity -- very unusual in a time when parents live under the rule of professional expertise -- shows the depth of her maternal empathy.
The metamodern individual is willing to have his or her well-constructed subjectivity pierced by interaction with others, and to seek out hybrid subjectivities that are simultaneously self-expressive of the self and the heterogeneous communities one belongs to.
Her objective world has become dangerous; her refuge becomes a subjectivity that leads to madness and strips her defenses bare.
