Perhaps one day I will say how my opponents were particularly useful to me in their own way, despite the challenges imposed, but today I would like to pay tribute to my ten greatest masters who, thanks to their unexpected help, allowed me to cross a sacred obstacle course.

Ariane Bilheran’s expertise Presented to the Grand Jury of the Corona 19 committee - February 19, 2022

Vera Sharav's interview with Dr. Ariane Bilheran in March 2022

Traditionally, and throughout humanity, there have been places where everyone could take refuge in a "neutral" zone of conflict, in protection, sheltered. With or without papers, with or without money, innocent or criminal, destitute, beggar, handicapped, old, whoever you are, whatever you have done, you could be welcomed and safe there.

No great crime, no human tragedy has remained without witnesses. It is as if destiny, or the collective unconscious, assigns this role to certain privileged individuals, and grants them providential protection to accomplish their mission. This is true as much for the "great History" as for the intimate dramas of families and communities.

The fanaticization of adolescents and young adults raises the question of what, in the psychic processes at work at the heart of our Western societies, incites them to this. Adolescence is a key initiatory moment, the one where the individual learns autonomy, that is to say the capacity to internalize universal moral laws within himself to make them his own, in order to free himself from the grip of his impulses. It is important to clarify that these moral laws are not relati