ABSTRACT
Jacob Moreno elaborated and projected into the past a kind of family romance, a miraculous birth. In this legend, Moreno forged an image for himself of someone who came from nowhere having a mission on the scale of humanity. A birth on a stormy night on a mysterious boat of unknown provenance this predicts an exceptional destiny. Moreno eventually left the practice of children's psychodrama, but despite this, the domain of childhood did not disappear from his thoughts or his nostalgias. He often referred to it, emphasizing his wish to stimulate adults so that they could recover the spontaneity, improvisational capacity, originality, and creativity of children. The psychoanalyst-psychodramatist Michel Laxenaire, President of the French Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Institute has published numerous articles, studies, and dissertations about Moreno, presenting an original and spiritual portrait in which the founder of psychodrama is presented, or rather analyzed, with irony and perspicacity.
