Thésée, sa vie nouvelle is a remarkably well-written book by Camille de Toledo, a true poetic creation relating the evolution of Thésée following the suicide of his brother Jérôme and the death of his parents. Trying to escape a fate of death, Thésée moves away from the place where his family lived and died and settles in Berlin. But there he collapses, or rather, his body collapses, seized by intolerable pain that immobilizes him on his bed. As all conventional medication is ineffective, he immerses himself in the boxes of archives he had taken with him when he fled. There he discovers the history of his ancestors, characterized by exile, deaths and, above all, a radical forgetting of original values. But this history, unspoken and untransmitted, influences the two brothers, Jérôme and Thésée, without their knowledge. The author of this article sees this book as the metaphor of an analytical journey and the way in which bodies reveal what could not be elaborated psychically.