There cannot be objective reality without a prior subject on which it depends, but that there may be a pure subjectivity without any object remains a possibility. The two are not interdependent counterparts and so they could never have equal status. The subjective is prior but unless you can isolate it you cannot understand what it is and so you cannot understand what the objective is either. Practically, however, whenever you turn around and direct attention to the subject it always alights on an object, a sort of inner arpeggio, a leading movement that never stands still. Subject and object are old well-worn and largely discredited terms, but that is no reason not to take them up again, but you do so lightly, respecting their feather-light fragility.