The article entitled “The house, from cellar to garret, the significance of the hut” tries to represent the meaning of a house from a phenomenological perspective. In my own point of view, I think the author of this article used the house as a symbol of human imagination. Albert Birot tries to explain how our vision supplements the values of reality. Depending on human beings’ imagination, we try to forge different meanings of how we perceive things through our imagination (“house”), yet we cannot run away from reality.
From another point of view, “the house” is used in this article to represent the works of mind or rather the philosophy of mind. The author portrays that there is a direct relationship between phenomenology and the philosophy of mind. In this context, he has brought out the issue of solidarity of imagination and memory. Through this, he explains the house as the most incredible power of integration for memories, thoughts, and dream of humankind. Unconscious is portrayed as housed, meaning when a human being is unconscious, it is impossible to describe his/her imagination.
The author has used complicated philosophical jargon in this document, thus complicating it. It is written poetically, therefore making it difficult to understand. The flow of the document’s ideas is put not well, making the article boring to read. The author has repeated different points complicating its meaning. It is only philosophers who can clearly understand the actual argument of the author. If you hate philosophy, you will not enjoy reading this article’s content due to the difficult philosophical jargon used in it.