Individuals are alienated from themselves by the highly complex, sophisticated, technological, bureaucratic world in which they live. Individual alienation, the loss of a sense of identity, is perpetuated by the labels and categories we use to describe people. Individuals are free to choose how they will respond to the painful existence in which they find themselves. Because they are free, individuals are also responsible for their own actions. Reality is not objectively knowable.
All knowledge is subjective.
Knowledge that is presumed to be objective and factual is actually of minimal value because it is superficial. Knowledge that is recognized as subjective is the most valuable, because it consists of internalized, integrated, self-initiated meanings. It is not merely cognitive, but is also affective. The knowledge we attain subjectively may not lend itself to logical, propositional statement. It may be best expressed through metaphors.