Abstract

This article questions the origin of subjectivity and its identity in its relation to consciousness, since consciousness, in its essence, is not yet subjective. It is characterized by a self-presence that is so radical that it threatens every form of self-knowledge and selfconsciousness. We therefore want to point to a difference between self-knowledge of the subject and the way an act of consciousness is conscious of itself. Every act of consciousness is self-conscious and therefore consciousness is absolute. In the article we search for the origin of subjectivity in a consciousness that is characterized by its radical lucidity. The idea that an opacity (passivity, etc.) would contaminate the absoluteness of consciousness rests on a curious confusion of the self of consciousness and the self of an ego or the subject. The fact that my self-knowledge is not entirely transparent or clear and distinct, does not say anything about the clarity and distinctness of selfconsciousness itself