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Is Your Life "Performed" or "Lived"? – Unlocking the Mystery of "Subject Objectification".

1. *Subject Objectification Defined:* The perspective suggests that a potential root of unhappiness for women is *subject objectification**, where identity is shaped by fitting **external expectations* and the need to adapt for survival, rather than an internal sense of self. This means becoming an "object defined by others" instead of developing one's own "subject identity".
2. *Historical Origin:* This shaping is linked to the **rise of patriarchal societies and private property**, where women's survival depended on aligning with resource-controlling male figures, leading to the development of traits that were adaptations for this dependency system. Even physical traits may reflect these historical social pressures.
3. *Present-Day Experience:* Living with this means being conditioned to constantly monitor the *external gaze* and expectations, with this outside feedback often becoming the template for identity, displacing an internal compass. Success might involve excelling at externally defined roles ("being the object the system rewards") rather than being the authentic subject.
4. *The "Way Out" Trap:* The option of returning to dependency within the family is viewed not as freedom but a potential "trap" or "abyss". Dependency on a partner's "love" for security merely swaps one external reliance for another, and the intense focus on love can mask a lack of fundamental rights, respect, and agency.
5. *Path to Subjectivity:* To break free and develop a genuine subject identity, it is deemed absolutely necessary to *break dependency**. **Financial independence* is presented as the **fundamental prerequisite for selfhood**, providing the essential freedom and power to choose how to live and assert one's own core subjectivity.