Have your own inner room, your own healthy space.

​ Have your own inner room, your own healthy space.

In modern times, people began to dream of 'one's own room'.

A 'one's own room' is a space where a person can absolutely withdraw from the outside, reflect on himself, and be reborn as a true being. Modern people can no longer simply depend on traditions and customs for their lives. In other words, in the modern society, the individual's various social lives have become mostly unpredictable and variable events, and each individual, not a group, regards himself as "the ability to continue a specific narrative" and "the individual must be responsible It has become a situation where you have to become the subject of a reflective project. Achieving this is self-actualization.

Being an individual is what sets you apart from others.

The individual 'I' has his own uniqueness that is different from anyone else. This uniqueness must be irreducible by any other characteristic, and disappears the moment it is forcibly reduced to something else.

Even though there are many 'we' in 'I', something unique to 'I' that is not reduced to any 'bundle' of us must remain for 'I'. When that 'something' disappears, I am just a bundle of bundles.

The explanation of 'I' is divided into pre-modern and post-modern times.

Before modern times, 'something' was called the soul. It is given by God and persists after death. However, in modern society, this thing is called 'self/self', and a being with this self is called an individual. So, in the modern society, people who do not have 'self-consciousness', that is, who cannot become themselves, were considered the lowest.

With the advent of modern society, the individual as an independent and distinct being who becomes the subject of his or her life with 'self-consciousness' and plans and manages his/her life has become a task that everyone must achieve and bear. Now, we have to become the beings who resist with 'no', not the subjects who basically obey with 'yes'. The moment I say 'yes', I become a subordinate being subordinate to the person who said it.

Revealing who we are, and realizing who we are, has become a task for all of us as important as the Middle Ages' entry into heaven.

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Modern society is a process of individualization that has no choice but to constantly pursue individual freedom. In the early modern era, personalization meant 'the liberation of human beings from communal dependence, surveillance, and coercion and tightly woven organizations.' In the past, humans bound by the class system, especially slaves and serfs, could never plan their own lives according to their will, but now, the ideal that all human beings are born to become free beings is never outside the same system as the class system. The arrest could not be approved, and this inevitably led to the abolition of the status system, which was an insult to humanity.

All human beings are born free, and human autonomy is the most important value and purpose for human beings and the basis of human dignity. It was believed that human beings are dignified because they are free, and that they can be dignified by being free. A being who pioneered his own destiny with his own power, this was the basis and goal for modern humans to be born.

The most necessary thing to become an individual was to have one's own unique thinking, that is, a sense of self that was different from other people. This is because only when he has an idea can he plan his life according to that thought, and only when he becomes a subject like this can he become the protagonist of his life. To become a subject, one must not move as society or nature leads. This is because it proves that he has not been freed from slavery. Thus, freed from the outside world, human beings are constantly in a state of discord with society and nature. The outside and inside were in a state of permanent tension. Hegel described this as a fall from a noble spirit to a lower consciousness. But this fall is progress, not regression. The low consciousness is a higher consciousness of freedom than the noble consciousness.

That is why this lowly conscious person needs an outside called the world and an inside called the inside. The other and the inner are in a dialectical relationship. Because there is the other, we constantly try to communicate with that other. In the process of communication, the 'I' must constantly look back on myself. This space in which I look back and live is the inside. In the inner space, we draw others into ourselves, have conversations, and reflect on ourselves through them. Being completely sucked into the other is not an independent life, and a life in which you forget the other and completely immerse yourself in yourself is not an independent life. The ego, having met and had conversations with others from the inside, has to go back to the space where others are, that is, to the world. For this reason, the dual space of life, the inner and the world, develops in a lively manner as a constant conflict and tension between the other and the self. 'One's own room' symbolizes this inner space.

Authenticity also means something unique to one's own. Conversely, without privacy, there is nothing unique to oneself, and human dignity cannot be maintained. It is for this reason that Ulrich Beck called the electric modernity 'half modernity'. Without privacy, it is not an individual in the modern sense.

Social distance is close to infinity, but physical distance is close to zero In this society, you need an empty space for yourself and a wall that can maintain the minimum distance from others. This 'empty space' presents a healthy 'between'.