Arianne’s roundtable explores how re-scripting goddess myths is essential to unlocking their potent archetypal power. Viewing these myths as living psychic structures, we often encounter narratives of extremes—polarized between passive victimhood and ruthless destruction—that can obstruct genuine psychological growth. The session begins with a multimedia presentation dismantling the traditional tropes of the Ariadne myth, followed by an open discussion. Participants are invited to share how they have re-scripted specific aspects of goddess figures to transform them into personal guides, drawing forth the internal directives necessary for modern resilience and self-discovery.

Central to the presentation is a symbolic listening to Ariadne’s “collapse” on the shores of Naxos. Rather than a tragic end, her abandonment is reframed as an expressive and necessary psychic descent. We will explore how her lament was not merely a cry of despair, but an oracular invocation that cleared the space for Dionysus, the god of ecstasy and divine madness, to appear.

Ultimately, we ask how the kinesthetic power and narrative arcs of such figures invite the reader to resource their own somatic sensations. Engaging with myth triggers a visceral empathy, where the reader’s body instinctively echoes or, just as crucially, resists the sensations described. By mimicking or rejecting a goddess’s posture or plot twists, the reader experiences a physical alignment—or misalignment—that can disrupt lifelong scripts, replacing them with a felt experience of sovereignty.