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Dasein has been individualized, but individualized as
Being-in-the-world. Being-in enters into the existential ‘mode’ of the “not-at-home”” (233). This process of individualization is cardinal: it is through the experience of angst that the human being is reminded, or rather, is confirmed of her individuality, that is, of the fact that it is ultimately a choice, a matter of freedom, to undertake to live the authentic life: “This individualization brings Dasein back from its falling, and makes manifest to it that authenticity and inauthenticity are possibilities of its Being” (235). Heidegger concludes: not-being-at-home is not just a passing feeling or even the impression of a few human beings; it is the fundamental state of all human beings: “From an existential-ontological point of view, the “not-at-home” must be conceived as the more primordial phenomenon”