Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual clarity, and perceived the not-so-revolutionary self-importance in the epigones of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas.

The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.

Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual clarity, and perceived the not-so-revolutionary self-importance in the epigones of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas.

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.