The currently popular discourse on ‘being oneself’ is very strongly connected with the home space, which is expected to be a place for gaining control, for the subjectivity and liberty that are hampered in other spheres. In indicating the fairly contemporary tendency - popularised by the media - to see the home as a place of asylum, of self- -expression and a sense of authenticity, the author tries not only to look more precisely at the genesis of the phenomenon and its characteristics, but also to draw attention to several problems connected with it.
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