This issue of Double Dialogues consists of analyses of literature, film and artworks in which the essayists seek to bring forth the hidden symbolic networks which - once decoded – offer glimpses into the unconscious worlds of artists, poets, novelists, playwrights and theorists.
What we hide and what is hidden from us is concealed: secreted from view. To hide oneself or an object or even to hide thoughts or feelings; or to be hiding or in hiding—all alternate between a state of affairs and a process.
‘Hidden stories’ conjures all these senses, be they stories about the hidden or stories that are hidden or what is hidden in the act of storytelling.