„Sve je to iz kuće izašlo!“
„It All Runs In The Family!“

Summary/Abstract: The symbolism of the home as an ancestrally orderly space hints at the search for a permanent structure in which demarcations are arranged along a dichotomous scale of good – bad and culturally defined interactions through which we learn where I/we ends and you begins. In a de-intimized home, all aesthetic and moral contents disappear, since intimacy is the supreme value of the home/house. Intimacy has experienced the destiny of exiles carried by the dynamics of life in which there is less and less search for internal sources of emotional energy, so the lack of intra-family contents and capital is also reflected in the poverty of the inner world of the family system. Since intimacy resists being reduced to strictly empirical dimensions, the voice of the symbolic invokes a layered, thick-description, and in this sense, the structure and functions of the house can serve as a convenient framework for a comparative analysis of accumulated meanings. The modern man needs to be reminded of the sacred character of the intimacy of the home, which is experiencing a deep crisis due to the confusion of borders, the imbalance of sociopetal and sociofugal places, the erasure of the protective membranes of the family system, the confusion between public and private, the consequences of subordinating all temporal and spatial determinants to the public sphere. The aim of the paper is to point out the perniciousness of the disappearance of intimacy, and in that sense the crisis of the House, which is already manifested in the crisis of family, and consequently, individual behavior, especially of young people in contemporary societies.

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