ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a reading of the Myth of Sisyphus focusing on the tension for Sisyphus between dwelling and placelessness that is symbolic of the human condition. Sisyphus is reflected back to himself by the underworld. He, like each of us, wants to dwell and yet, like each of us, he must face the uncanniness of dwelling. He must face the discomfort that is mortal, human existence. The role of place with respect to our existential concerns is examined through the position of some theorists who claim that we are placeless. In addressing how we dwell on this earth, it can be shown that we neither fully dwell nor are we utterly placeless. By examining the particularity of our dwelling, and the lack of ease within place we see how we exist in an in-between. The role of place in the particularity of our mortality is likewise explored. Overall, it becomes clear that we cannot think existentially without thinking through the particularity of our place and that Sisyphus aptly represents the struggle of our existential in-between.
