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Subject-Object Dialectic

Agency
The ability of subjects to make decisions for themselves.
The mental and material capacity of a subject to make goals for themselves.
Subjectivity
Subjective Agent
The quality of being based on one's personal experiences, thoughts and emotions.
The capacity to have experiences, emotions and thoughts of one's own.
A subject is one that has subjectivity as above.
Object
One that is experienced or acted upon by something with agency
One that lacks innate agency.
Objectification is the process of removing the agency of a subject.