The author, throughout a long voyage starting from a Gus Van Sant movie, to different literary authors, will explore the necessity of writing. The film Finding Forrester will be analyzed, reflecting the impact of writing on teenagers and the construction of one's identity. Then a very practical aspect will be thoroughly discussed: the therapeutical writing workshop, the choice of the writing as a media, the course of a session, and the possibility of having individual sessions with the same media. The voyage continues to historical aspects of diaries, from Epictetus, Petrarque, Saint Augustin, Rousseau, Woolf, and more, from the hypomnemata to auto fiction with Doubrovsky and many more. The last part of the journey will discuss the creative process, as the difference between cathartic writing and fiction. The main example will be trauma, psychological trauma. To illustrate the discussion some authors will be given as examples such as: Jorgé Semprun, Sidney Stewart, Elias Khoury, Imre Kertèsz. Trauma will be the conductive thread of this memoir.

L’auteur, tout au long d’un long voyage qui part du film de Gus Van Sant à différents auteurs littéraires, explorera la nécessité d’écrire. Le film Finding Forrester sera analysé, le journal intime appréhendé, avant d’expliciter la théorie et la mise en place d’ateliers d’écriture. Le traumatisme aura une place prépondérante étayée par des auteurs de la littérature.