The need for a protected home refuge is primal and innate

Evidence

Home is our school of intimacy, where we first learn to be human. Its corners and nooks conceal the sweetness of solitude; its rooms frame our experience of relationship. Its shelter, stability, and security work to concentrate our unique inner sense of self, an identity that imbues our day dreams and night dreams forever. Its hiding places—closets, chests, drawers, locks, and keys—satisfy our need for mystery and independence. Doors—locked, closed, half shut, wide open—trigger our sense of wonder, safety, possibility, and adventure. Bachelard plumbs not only the imagery of the human house but also of nests and shells, the “primal images” of home that convey the absolute “primitiveness” of the need for a safe refuge: “Well-being takes us back to the primitiveness of the refuge. Physically, the creature endowed with a sense of refuge huddles up to itself, takes to cover, hides away, lies snug, concealed… a human being likes to ‘withdraw into his corner’… it gives him physical pleasure to do so.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1521

Categorization

• XREF: Bachelard’s phenomenology of domestic space foreshadows the more pragmatic analyses in ‘Home’ literature and connects to studies of domesticity as a sphere of self-formation. — connects to: Humans require both enclosed refuge and open prospect for wellbeing — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1514; The search for home is a profound, universal human need that drives extreme sacrifice. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 25; The home becomes woman’s refuge that renders the outside world unreal — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1203
• DEFINE: Introduces Bachelard’s concept of primal images of refuge, defining home as the original experience of living in space.

Broader Connections

• The search for home is a profound, universal human need that drives extreme sacrifice. #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 25
• The home becomes woman’s refuge that renders the outside world unreal #exemplifies (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1203