This paper explores ‘the sense of feeling at home’ in the late modern society with a specific focus on the subject of dwelling. The aim of the paper is to present a theoretical conception of the ‘feeling’ as a phenomenon, and how this feeling is being established in a generative process. 

Often heavy metaphors are being used in order to describe or encircle the phenomenon, however such metaphors are most often more seductive than clarifying and they seem to obscure the examination of the phenomenon in vague and/or semi-magical meaningfulness.

The main challenge for the paper is therefore to describe this fuzzy feeling from a research perspective with clear use of concepts, but at the same time not to discard the lived meaning of precisely those metaphors.

The exploration will be carried out from a more or less phenomenological point of view with theoretical inspiration from especially Husserl’s philosophy on morphologically vague phenomenons and Carl Friedrich Graumann’s work on modes of appropriation of space.