Bande dessinée

The precedent part about the works of Hergé gave us an original key of reading of the order of the four albums: The Secret of the Unicorn, Red Rackham's Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun which unfolding bound, according to Jacques Fontaine, to the symbolic of the Little Work and The Great Work.
In this third and last part, the author deciphers the importance and the role of the language of the birds in the work of Hergé especially through the letters: A,R and C that we find at a frequency more than in usual language

The two albums of Tintin studied antecedently in « Achievement of the self » (« Le secret of the unicorn » et « Red Rackham's treasure » ) talked about the first step of every initiatory process, the Little work: the self's erosion, the identification of its automatisms, the surpassing of its contradictions and the establishment of an inner peace.
In this second part, Jacques Fontaine talks about the second step of an initiatory process, the Great Work: exaltation, the opening and the fusion with the One, the wonder in front of the indescribable.
Indeed, the two following albums "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun" are placed under the sign of Fire: Fire of knowledge, Fire of Spirit.  Thanks to many fascinating analogies borrowed to different traditions: Amerindian, African, Celtic, Far East, Jacques Fontaine makes us discover that behind the drawing, the characters and their "external" jokes an inner"symbolism" is hiding, that Hergé drew from alchemy, hermeticism, Freemasonry.         

How to explain the tremendous and perennial success of this little reporter, Tintin, born in 1929 who "always wins without fighting" and that Hergé qualified as "knight"? Scriptwriter of genius, ecologist before time and humanist, Hergé was fascinated by paranormal and shrewed reader of the psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. Jacques Fontaine deciphers in this first video the deep meaning that hides behind the works "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure" distinguishing the three levels of reading: narrative, cultural, and the structure.
 

Joel Grégogna appraises the initiatory dimension that can be found in the work of Hugo Pratt. What does it mean “to be initiated”? What are the signs the author leaves in his text that show us Corto is an initiate? Questions Joel Grégogna investigates and develops in this talk.