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Table of contents
Introduction
1. Freemasonry and Analytic Psychology
2. Freemasonry and Fascism: two different expressions of "Myth".
3. The Italian anomaly. Fascism and Freemasonry: a "Religious War"?
4. Freemasonry as the "Third Pillar" of Society.
The four essays of this book only seem heterogeneous, instead they actually are closely related.
In the first essay, Freemasonry and Analytic Psychology, the author defines a new and original reading key of the Masonic phenomenon, using the concepts of the Jungian analytic psychology.
In the second essay, "Freemasonry and fascism, two different expressions of myth" the author, with adequate clarity, demonstrates the exclusive political use of the myth made by fascism,
while opposite seems the Masonic phlilosophy that includes mythological symbolism on the path and the project of individual improvement of the human being.
This different concept brings the author to historically analyse in the third essay how fascism could only result in the persecution of Freemasonry.
The books ends with: Freemasonry as "Third Pillar" of Society. In it we find the lines of the action and of the role of Freemasonry in the present-day society;
this role, in an open society as the Western one, is called by Dahrendorf the "Third Pillar" that collaborates with liberty and market economy.
The author shares this purely Anglo-Saxon concept and adequately develops it up to critically analyse how in Italy this concepts still finds opponents in some political and institutional parties.
The book is written in a fluent style that facilitates the comprehension of concepts that otherwise would be not easily comprehensible for who is out of the narrow circle of the professors.
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