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Our relationship with 'home' includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mother's womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into our psyche, which persists, throughout life, as (hopefully) a fond prototype, an object of nostalgia, and a source of ego-replenishment, college dorms, shared housing, apartments, marital and family homes, downsized residences of late middle age, retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices. Far apart from a world of linear progression are traumatizing homes, foster homes, and orphanages where searingly painful as well as defiantly triumphant scenarios of growth and development may unfold. Also, monasteries, which embody the human desire for detachment, silence, and contemplation, away from earthly relations to seek spirituality and transcendence.
The contributions from Aisha Abbasi, Salman Akhtar, Rajiv Gulati, M. Nasir Ilahi, Gurmeet S. Kanwal, Murad Khan, Milan Patel, Sarita Singh, and Nidhi Tewari seek to demonstrate that at each step in the life span, our dwellings both impact upon and reflect our intrapsychic goings-on. As well as examinations of the kinds of home mentioned above, the abstract nature of home is also explored, looking at its function, the search for a sense of home, homesickness, absence, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home. There's no place like home and Attics and Basements shows us why.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the editors and contributors
Introduction
Introductory overview
1. The nature and functions of a home
Nidhi Tewari
Real and imaginary homes across the human life span
2. The biography of a home
Nidhi Tewari
3. The search for a sense of home
Sarita Singh and Rajiv Gulati
4. Homesickness, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home
Aisha Abbasi
5. Home, bitter home
Gurmeet S. Kanwal
6. Orphanages and foster homes
Milan Patel
7. Monasteries
Salman Akhtar
8. Retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices
Murad Khan
9. Dwellings and absences thereof, within and without
M. Nasir Ilahi
Concluding commentary
10. Finally, a turn to poets
Salman Akhtar
References
Index
