Home: Friend or Enemy in Times of the Pandemic

The current Covid-19 pandemic shows the human vulnerability to the domestic confinement that has provoked some physical and mental illness. The hypothesis is that home has been transformed in an enclosure where to drown the outrages inside a contemporary world where city is the main scene of over-achievement and self-exploitation of human being. The house has become an object of production and consumption, a sign of the home's fading. Human being, subdued to job and the social life's positivity, assumes the house as receptacle and cubicle for consuming and hoarding, not as a home. Today, when we need most the kindness of home, some psychic and emotional symptoms show the opposite. Home must be rescued.

City, city house, family, home, human being, employ

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