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‘Religion, death, terrorism, love: if I do not understand these things, what am I doing in the world? Where can I find something worth living for, Doctor?’
Responding to this search for meaning is a challenge. Like birth or death, we cannot escape. There is no way out and this is scary. Perhaps this is the beauty of life: the challenge is to make sense of that which seems senseless.
As a screenplay writer, my love for storytelling and film arises from early childhood experiences of my grandmother reading aloud Perodi's fairy tales (1960), and watching the famous scene in Fellini's film 81/2 (1963) where all characters of the protagonist's life parade around in a circle. Later I learned screenplay writing by working and being in conversation with directors and screenwriters (particularly Fellini) where everything converged through a shared telling of and listening to stories, reminding me of listening to my grandmother. Synchronously I discovered the same edition of Perodi in Fellini's personal library (Maroni & Ricci 2008) placed close to many Jungian psychology books that included underlines and dedications. Some, such as the dedication by Bernhard (Fellini's analyst) in Psychology and Alchemy (Jung 1953), were particularly significant. Through all these meaningful connections, I created a workshop based on the fairy tale, enabling participants to experience something like our ancestors at the dawn of civilization, who sat in a circle around the fire to tell and to hear stories for