ABSTRACT
The postmodern outlook questions the assumptions that earlier eras are necessarily less complex than our own, that human history follows a single and unidirectional evolutionary course, or that there is a universal foundation to scientific knowledge, in particular to technoscience. Yaka society is an example of the latter category. Cultures of this type are centred around kinship and the symbolic debt of filiation, and around subsistence activities, as well as around a multisensory consonance, emerging through the everyday practices and institutions of production and power, between the multiple orders of the world, the other worldly, and the corporal. Things are obviously much simpler when the psychoanalyst, as is usually the case, works with a single individual within the framework of consultation or of analysis. In the psychoanalytic relation, the honorarium allows for the patient to recover from a symbolic debt towards the analyst.
