Dave's thoughts on The Poetics of Space

In chapter one of the poetics of space I found the phenomenological reality in daydreaming, as it is connected to the house, to be agreeable in terms of its poetics and its ability to set one inside the constructs of a fixed space that no longer exists and is outside of a particular time framing. I agree that in my case, as is the case for many others that our childhood home is our “first universe.” However, I also believe there are other reasons one may find the notion of a universally existing place for protection of the I under the non-I to be questionable. Perhaps the time and place in which one finds a primitive space that fosters such daydreaming varies. Aren’t hospitals now the birthplace of many verses the home and don’t hospitals lack the same verticality mentioned to be lacking in cities? And what of those who to this day are born under simply a roof with perhaps one wall, corner-less? Places to daydream can also be unsheltered but just as solitary. Before a house is built isn’t the land surveyed, isn’t it plotted at the center of the landowners property so that it may be concealed there? A feral child shut in a room away from humanity is anything but a hermit and it takes less than a moment to understand why a feral child’s connection to said intimate space would foster a very different kind of daydream, as if the home were only a cellar.

I do all in all agree with idea that certain virtues can be retained through the most reductive recollection of a space so intimate. As well I agree that phenomenology provides us the ability poetically to relive “dual interests (or experiences) of man and things, at the same time that we neglect nothing of the anthropo-cosmic tissue of a human life.” Furthermore the house is much like that of man and can be seen as a metaphor man in jungian respects as well as poetic respects. And for me home is where the heart is or where you hang your hat and a house in the phenomenological sense is a place that can be found wherever you are, though it can be seen as its own entity it is also internalized to be awakened for reuse in the daydream.