Journal Epokhe
Psychotherapy | Phenomenology | Hermeneutics
Journal Epokhe / Epoché
The journal Epokhe / Epoché is the fruit of four Greek phenomenological organizations — Gignesthai, Focusing, the Hellenic Society of Daseinanalysis, and the Gestalt Foundation — and emerged from a collaboration that has continued for many years.
Although the idea of collaboration arose spontaneously, what has allowed it to endure the test of time was not each of our prior paths, nor our characters, nor our theoretical affinity or reference to phenomenology, but something incomparably more valuable: a shared core, a common intellectual stance that, through experience and awareness of otherness (we differ and disagree on many things), we discovered along the way, each within the work of the others.
The shared core of the four organizations, suggested in the title of the journal Epokhe / Epoché, emphasizes a particular stance:
- The passage from the rigidity of univocal truths to the acceptance of the multivocal. As the reality of our world changes rapidly and as everything moves within the field of polysemy, ambiguity, and reduced certainty, the univocal increasingly belongs to the past. It no longer convinces, precisely because it presupposes a static and single-meaning reality.
- This particular journal aspires to be a strong proponent of a culture that insists on drawing inspiration from the value of the written word as a cornerstone of an ongoing engagement with the multivocal. A written word that does not close itself in final verdicts but maintains the openness of questioning, contributing to encounter, dialogue, and intellectual ferment.
- Even more, the role of the journal is to place the discourse of psychotherapy in active dialogue with other discourses of society. In a fluid and continuously evolving becoming, psychotherapy must engage with philosophy, art, politics, popular sentiment, science, and so on. Psychotherapy must enter into conversation with them, because such dialogue illuminates and clarifies its own path.
In this sense, the journal does not aim merely at providing information, but at exploring a new direction in psychotherapeutic thought — one that can emerge through encounter and dialogue, insofar as it intersects with other discourses and opens itself to polysemy.
Four Phenomenological Societies, One Journal on Phenomenological Psychotherapies
You can find the journal Epokhe / Epoché on its official website: epoche.weebly.com
or obtain any of its issues from the Eurasia Publications website:
