About the Journal

Existential Analysis and the Phenomenology of Life (ISSN 3071-978X; DOI by Crossref 10.63867) is a biannual journal published by Akceptacja4.FM Lab in Warsaw. Akceptacja4FM.Lab is an original initiative carried out within the framework of Sapienza Ltd., a company registered in the National Court Register (KRS), which serves as the official publisher and managing entity of the journal.

Existential Analysis and the Phenomenology of Life is a popular-scientific journal devoted to various dimensions of existence from philosophical and psychological perspectives. It is dedicated both to professionals working in the helping professions and to all those who seek to live in harmony with themselves, in dialogue with the world, guided by meaning and values, and in the inseparable fusion of the psychic and bodily dimensions of human life.

The journal publishes original works, including theoretical and case-based articles, expert recommendations, consensuses, editorial commentaries on selected contributions, preliminary reports, international event summaries, letters to the editor, abstracts and discussions of articles published elsewhere, as well as reviews of books and other publications thematically related to existential psychology and existentialism. The journal is published in an electronic format on an open-access basis, including via the journal’s website. All submissions are published free of charge under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND). Contributions are accepted in both Polish and English.

Academic disciplines covered: Humanities: philosophy, Medical and health sciences: medical sciences, health sciences, Social sciences: psychology.

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No. 3 (2026): Understanding Took a Long Time to Reach Me, and Then I Missed It by a Hair Several Times

2026-01-07

The third, spring issue of Existential Analysis and Phenomenology of Life is devoted to the path toward understanding—as a mode of being in the world in which meaning does not reveal itself immediately and cannot be easily grasped. Sometimes the first element of understanding appears only after years. Sometimes it allows the dots to be connected. And sometimes it merely shows that it is not yet time.

Read more about No. 3 (2026): Understanding Took a Long Time to Reach Me, and Then I Missed It by a Hair Several Times

Current Issue

No. 2 (2025): Life Anyway - Constellations of How We Choose to Live

Editorial Note

Writing about life is not easy. Especially about the ordinary, simple, good life - without pathos, without grand words. About the fact that life continues despite. Despite pain, despite loss, despite the diagnosis, despite death. Despite not going where we hoped to go, despite someone leaving, despite something ending irreversibly. And yet - it is precisely this despite that becomes a place of meaning, an act of creation, and a constellation of chosen attitudes. We find freedom in eating sprats, in the smell of the forest, in conversation, in the quiet after a day that did not unfold the way we expected, in everydayness. In the fact that someone finishes their studies - despite. That someone begins again after forty - despite. That we still try to live well and authentically - despite. Life does not fulfil expectations; it asks for our response. And perhaps this is why we so often cover simple truths with philosophy. Because it is easier to speak of Being than to admit that life is sometimes simply difficult? And yet one can live well despite — and that is precisely why it makes sense. From a mother’s first word to Ozzy’s final chord — in all of it there is gratitude, presence, and an everyday choice rather than struggle. And that is enough.

We hope that the second issue of Existential Analysis and the Phenomenology of Life (ISSN 3071-978X), will become a space for reflections on living well despite - on choosing one’s attitude and on providing an answer until the very end.

Warm regards,
Dorota Draczyńska & Agnieszka Nowakowska
Editor-in-Chief & Chair of the Editorial Board

19.12.2025

Published: 2025-12-19

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