ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the initiated therapist as an antisorcerer. The afflicted person seeking therapy has suffered a loss of strength and is in a critical state. Forest and darkness, like sorcery, constitute the reverse side of diurnal life insofar as they constitute the universe of collective fantasy of unarticulated alterity removed from the sphere of social production. Therapy relegates the source of the evil tormenting the patient to the forest, where it will dissipate. The chapter explores the activity of the therapist in the context of the therapeutic cult which operates and is handed down along the lines of the uterine filiation. The therapist presents himself first of all as a countersorcerer. The therapist constructs a space-time of the founding ancestor demiurge, the figure par excellence of the intersection of various forms of discourse on the questions of evil and misfortune, on filiation and on descent of rights and social belonging.
