Georges Simenon et Federico Fellini : ces mystérieuses synchronicités…

Abstract – From the time they met at Cannes Film Festival in 1960 until Georges Simenon’s death in 1989, the Belgian writer and the Italian director Federico Fellini maintained an intense relationship, which developed around a deep complicity on some essential questions traversing their existences, such as the relation with Woman, the demands of artistic creation, the de- termining influence of unconscious psychic life. In the course of their cor- respondence, which extended over almost thirty years, some coincidences and reciprocities manifest according to an affective and elusive logic which seems to defy the laws of causality or of mere chance. The psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, whose ideas are often the object of enthusiastic reflections by the two artists, would have talked of « those mysterious sincronicities » which are at the heart of such enduring friendship and bond.