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If this seems merely to be a philosophical problem, the consequences for this model of subjectivity are equally compelling within 'reality' as well. For example, until recently, it was generally accepted (by men at least) that only men were masters Df themselves. Women, on the other hand, were supposed to be subject to passions and feelings which they could not properly control. That is to say, women were not
==Three Meanings==
<blockquote>Furthermore, the very term "subject" has three main meanings: subject as an autonomous agent; subject as this same agent submitted ("subjected") to some power; topic, "subject matter." It is not difficult to recognize in these three meanings the triad of the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary: pure subject as the "answer of the real"; a subject of the signifier, submitted to - caught into - the symbolic order; the imaginary stuff that provides the matter, the "content," of the subject.<ref>Zizek, Slavoj. <u>[[The Parallax View]]</u>.</ref></blockquote>
