Arendt argues that "the private sphere [must] be distinct from the individual pursuit of material happiness" in order to produce "a self that [can] make a substantive contribution to exchanges about the common good" (Crary's summation, 21)
see The Human Condition in which she explores the public/private dynamic by examining "the exhaustion resulting from labor or activity in the world, and the regeneration that regularly occurs within an enclosed and shaded domesticity"