Dwelling: The Longing for Being at Home

Although house and home are conflated, it is because, according to Bachelard, a house is not a mere object, and spatially the profound intersubjective feelings of home are intrinsically intertwined. Furthermore, Heidegger concurs, Beings-in-the-world do not exist independently, alongside space, but are part of it. Subsequently this means to be human is to dwell, we exist constantly in space and in everything thing we do we have the potential ‘to dwell’ or ‘be at home’. However when ‘not at home’, there is still the longing for it, a continuation of dwelling therefore but in a different sense.