Undercurrents is a psycho-analytical informed journal that offers a space for deep listening to the psyche, and soul, where contemplation with the written takes place.
Contemplation implies more than reflection or analysis. When we contemplate we sit with—not to dissect, not to solve, but to be in a relationship with something as it reveals itself. Contemplation allows images, thoughts, and feelings to unfold over time, without demand. It asks for patience, slowness, and a kind of humility that creates room for something new to appear.
The journal does not seek to teach, persuade, or declare. It offers, instead, a terrain for thinking alongside.
Each issue brings together essays by authors informed by psychoanalytic traditions, especially those of Jung, though not confined to them. The voices differ, and no unified theory is put forward.
Instead, the intent is to share ways of thinking that take the inner world seriously—by which we mean the life of the psyche and soul: its images, moods, dreams, memories, symptoms, symbols, and dynamics.
Some contributions speak to current cultural moods, others return to foundational concepts. Some invite introspection, others turn toward myth, art, or symbol.
Across these differences, what they hold in common is a certain slowness—an opportunity to dwell on questions rather than resolve them. The act of reading, here, is not passive. It is a form of participation.
It is a collection of ongoing inquiries—offered with care, and with the hope that something within them might resonate quietly, in ways neither the author nor the publisher can fully predict.
We have called it Undercurrents — a gesture toward the underlying structure that directs the presented thoughts but is distinct from the expressed thought. It is the implicit that withstands a fully fletched-out theory.
Enjoy reading,
Christian Kasper - Undercurrents
