TY - BOOK AU - Bryon-Portet,Céline TI - Ambivalent and founding incommunication: The case of freemasonry PY - 2019///. N1 - 13 N2 - Incommunication, which lies at the foundation of Masonic culture, is connected with the internal dissent within Freemasonry; with practices of secrecy imposed by the institution (where members are forbidden from communicating about their activities, which leads to a lack of understanding among the public); and with Masonic initiation rites (an incommunicable experience in which one rubs shoulders with a form of the sacred).This article explores the issues involved, both internally and externally, in these different types of incommunication, along with their paradoxical effects: incommunication can foster corrective communicative actions, yet the willingness to communicate sometimes itself produces incommunication UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-hermes-la-revue-2019-2-page-57?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -