ABSTRACT
The difficulty in reflecting on dwelling on the one hand, there is something age-old – perhaps eternal – to be investigated here, the image of the abode of the human being in the maternal womb … [O]n the other hand … we must understand dwelling in its most extreme form … The original form of all dwelling is existence not in the house but in the shell. The shell bears the impression of its occupant. In the most extreme instance, the dwelling becomes a shell.
