Psychoanalyst can be compared to archaeologists who layers after layers identify clear out the successive layers of our sediments called "certainty - prejudice", "pride" then "resistance - barrier" in order to get closer, and to target our Unconscious. This Unconscious can be compared to what esotericists call "the thin tip of the soul". Does the initiatory way that Freemasonry suggests enable to get closer to it ? To answer this question, we gathered Marie-Hélène Gonnin (Freudian psychoanalyst) and Jacques Fontaine (Freemason, author of many works, published by Detrad) among others) with Daniel Videlier, in this third and last part about this subject.
"Improve one's observation sense, go through the mask, laugh of oneself, lucidity, light, duality, initiation, behavior" are themes which will be talked about. To Marie-Hélène Gonnin, the Freemason gets deep inside a "hyper morality", a rigid base where the reasoning reason, and where humor is totally absent (characteristic of obsessional personalities ?)...
On the contrary Jacques Fontaine calls for burst in freemasonry: a burst in which intuition, emotion and humility would be on the agenda. This "freeing Freemasonry" as he calls it would be for him the only one able to continue its initial ideals: to promote the liberation of the being and society... large challenge for our French society where "to see a shrink" is still the prerogative of the "sick ones" and where to enter Freemasonry is still "taboo"... that is to say there's a long way to go.
Do you think that Freemasonry has to break free from its "18th century" yoke (1717) based on the moral and on humanism and that it has to open to human sciences such as psychoanalysis (1896) ? Because as asserts Jacques Fontaine "to a Freemason, a psychoanalytic reading, enables him to see what is not visible to him..." ?
Answer in this 50-minutes debate filmed at the Forum 104.
