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The task of my inquiry is to lay out the inner articulation of Patočka’s phenomenological project. In the first place, I attempt to clarify the role subjectivity assumes within Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology. I maintain that while subjectivity is a constitutive dimension of the field of appearance, it is bereft of any constitutive privilege. I further examine the relationship between appearance (which is an essentially non-real dimension) and the real. While the specific domain of phenomenology—the phenomenal field, appearance essentially—can be brought to light only by putting any thesis about being on hold, the fact remains that phenomenology cannot avoid the question of the entry of appearance into the world. Phenomenology cannot shed light on this relationship without exceeding its own limits in the direction of a philosophical cosmology and of an “ontic theory of existence.”