SUMMARY Temporary and permanent shells are found in nature which transform with a growing organism and change their form while the organism develops or they are get rid off and grow up again thgrough the living cycle they serve as means of protection. In some cases, we can compare shells with person‘s emotinion states. Individ‘s innerworld, in which, he for some reasons closes in, we can call „shelter“ – he closes in willingly, in other cases the shell might be thrusted by other subject, or by other psychologically or physically stronger individs. Willinglly closed individ, is followed by such subjects as: closeness, not communicating, not improving, torpidity, separation from the world, from inovation. Individ closes in himself, separates from society, feel push off, misundertood. Either society is closed for individual for his not knowing, unwill to understand, to accept him the way he is, for losing relations, for interests missunderstanding, for difference of psichical possibilities. This is a topical issue which excites the minds of not only ordinary people but also artists, sociologist and scientists.