A lecture in three movements
Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
Drawing on clinical experience, doctoral research and the arts, this lecture follows the passage from a meaningful coincidence to an ecology of meaning: the relationships through which an experience can grow, change and be shared.
01 · Yesterday
The unexpected encounter
At the threshold of my first clinical session, an unexpected visitor demanded money just as I received my first therapeutic fee. The encounter made synchronicity an immediate, lived question.
In Les Hasards Nécessaires, first published in French in 2001 and later in English as Necessary Chances, I explored how encounters with people, places, books and symbols can unsettle the stories we live by.
The dialogue between Jung and Pauli provides a starting point for considering coincidence, symbolic life and the experience of a meaningful moment.
02 · Today
The body and the relationship
My doctoral research brings this inquiry into the consulting room. A shiver, a pause or a feeling of astonishment may arrive before an explanation. How do therapists receive these moments, and how does meaning take shape in a relationship?
The clinical task is to remain curious while leaving room for uncertainty. An experience can be explored without imposing a final interpretation.
Like a grain of sand becoming a pearl, an unsettling event may gradually become part of a story that a person can inhabit differently.
03 · Tomorrow
The living orchestra
Symphonicity extends the inquiry toward our shared world. If a meaningful encounter is a note, what music might we create together?
I use the orchestra as a metaphor for an ecology of meaning: distinct lives and rhythms entering into relationship while retaining their own voices.
This emerging perspective asks how collective imagination, play and the arts can help us respond to uncertainty, the influence of algorithmic environments, and our responsibility toward future generations.
