The two doors of the soul

What resonance is there between ternary anthropology as Michel Fromaget described and work of Proust, which has always been considered as agnostic? Yet a passage of his work presents soul as a residence with two doors: one "low and shameful" is the experience one, the other,"golden" the imagination one. This structure places soul between two levels of reality, presented as opposed in nature and in value.

What we know by experience has entered in the soul by the senses, body, coming from external physical world. There is another level of reality beyond the soul, but which knowledge is present in it as an inborn memory. Imagination, says the author, is the faculty to "know what is absent": his pole is the one of aspiration which aims to infinity; Why perpetual and dramatic mistakes dragged by projections, aroused by attention-seeking will...

Will Proust’s hero’s course enable him to recognize the reality to which the imagination door open in which eternal gold was at the beginning of extra temporal nature? Based on the works of Gilbert Durand and on the searches of physicians, such as Basarab Nicolescu, Hélène de Laguérie tries to draw our attention to deep mysteries of the soul and of a work which creating origin comes from an illumination experience… 






















This 58-minutes was filmed in the Collège des Bernardins within the frame of an homage to Painter T'ANG HAYWEN.