The paper explores the relationship between what we take to be objective or paramount reality and, roughly, its subjectification: a shadowy world, edging on the imaginative, which I call the scene. I suggest that the two "realities" are mutually implicated. I argue that insofar as we respond to (as we create) these scenes that color our experiences of objective reality, they demand anthropological consideration. I stress the intersubjective nature of subjectivity itself and offer a preliminary attempt at understanding the complex interlocutory dramas, occurring in ritual, for example, or psychoanalysis, that constitute the scene.
Subjectification; Intersubjectivity; Ritual; Constructions of Reality; Indexical Dramas