The tension between subjectivity and objectivity is one of the central problems of epistemology. Most proposals approach it as a duality: two opposing poles, where what is not one is the other. This paper proposes a different and more precise path. The starting point is the definition of consciousness as the objectification of one’s own thought (Iguiniz Agesta, 2026a) and the epistemological sequence that leads to the notion of objectivity as possibility (Iguiniz Agesta, 2026b). By articulating these two proposals, this paper shows that between them and before them, three territories with their own identity are delimited. The first is unconsciousness: thought that operates without objectifying itself, as pure activity prior to any self-attention. The second is subjectivity: consciousness that does not recognize its perspective as a personal perspective. The third is objectivity: the openness to the search for a reality that transcends any individual perspective, including one’s own. Between the three territories, two independent thresholds are drawn: crossing the first does not guarantee crossing the second. The position of each subject with respect to the three territories is an individual and variable topology, by domains and by moments. From the independence between the two thresholds derives a structural asymmetry: to the extent that a subject has not crossed a threshold in a given domain, they do not experience that absence as absence, but as normality.
Gabriel Iguiniz Agesta (Mon,) studied this question.