I tested my way

I draw my labyrinth

Then comes time from the myth. Francoise Bernard uses the myth of Thésée facing Minotaure: a history of exploits, renouncements, desires and of destiny. “The myth allows a turning by the imaginary one, therefore a turning towards oneself. It offers to each one the possibility of translating such or such side of sound lived in other images, of putting its steps in a way already borrowed by others and of being thus constant in its interrogation. ”

She encourages us, after having told the exploits of future king d’ Athènes, to draw our own labyrinth, to name our own Minotaure and to give a generic title to the scene of the duel. I launch out in a red and black fresco baptized “the final fight”: Thésée, helmeted and winged, advances ready with in découdre with Minotaure which bars the road to him towards the light. I am surprised by the passion turning of the events! I have the impression to see a played scene thousand times where I recognize revolts, feverish enthusiasms and also of the fears which still prevent me from advancing as I would like it… And I formulate for myself: “Fought Enough, I want to anchor me. ”

I seek my cardinal points

This stage of work, my questions however remain: “Am I in the good place? Did I make the good choices? All would these fights, these cuts, have made me lose my wire of ARIANE? ” To allow us to take height, Francoise Bernard proposes to us to fill our Dédalescope. More than one curriculum vitae reduced to its only dimension of “race of life”, this exercise is presented in the form of a table of orientation intended to receive the inscription of our “careers of life”.

“This stage gives a sight synthetic and dynamic of what could be felt like a puzzle, even like a field of ruins, still Francoise Bernard specifies. He helps to be directed and very often reveals the wire of ARIANE which runs through what we could call the geology of ego. ”

With my companions of labyrinth, we thus undertake to read again our geographical map: our filiation, the big events of our lives, our studies formal and abstract, which was transmitted to us, which we transmit… Each one opens with the others its discoveries. For my part, I evoke some images of my childhood: my readings, my desire for writing, my dreams besides… I am delayed on my control of right obtained, I now know it, to balance a family debt.

Then I couple on my departure towards Paris, city-labyrinth chosen to invent me far from waitings of the others and to become journalist. In the interlacings of my account, I revive the doubts, but especially the meetings and the discoveries of this time. And I think that, with the image of Thésée, me also I took the bull by the horns! I was not afraid of (me) losing… for (me) gaining.

I found my wire of ARIANE

Such as I have written it and have just told it with the other trainees, my professional way appears in its coherence: at the same time necessary and formative. Reassured on my resources as on my roots, my Minotaure are done less threatening. As for ARIANE (my interior compass, my creativity), it can again inspire to me by the projects: fictions to be written, formations to be undertaken…

“The final fight already took place”, say itself I alleviated, sure to hold the good wire and ready to anchor me out of ground of writing. “In this step, which imports, it is which “I” occur at the same time as his project”, Francoise Bernard concludes before adding with mischievousness: “But, of course, them “I” never are really made…” Because the history of Thésée, it is the history of a life. A life to give its destiny moving to sail closest to its truth.