"It is after having "dwelt" in himself or herself that a person dwells in a building. Self-communion also amounts to creating a distance from the outside world, arising from an intimacy that is dwelling itself: "Concretely, the dwelling is not siutatued in the objective world, but the objective world situates itself in relation to my dwelling" (Levinas,'61). However, any intimacy is intimacy with someone; that is to say, any solitude as well as any interiority is situated in a world that is already human. Self-communion always refers to a welcoming, an openness toward the Other."

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"Thus, any wandering, any exile was a rupture with oneself, and any "going-home-again" amounted to a returning to oneself. Furthermore, the word ethos used to mean "habitual residence," or "dwelling," including the notion of habitual activites. The home, therefore is this sum of immobility, of stability, and of continuity that every being needs in order to weave the links between identity and essence constantly. After wandering, it is the place where one experiences the return to unity with oneself."

"Experience and Use of the Dwelling" - Korosec-Serfaty, in Home Environments