ABSTRACT
This chapter explores various senses of otherness and Sameness before coming to Levinas' explication of these concepts. The notion of an unbridgeable gap describes, the relativity of socio-temporality, is difficult to address within a theoretical framework that brings together apparent contradictions. Levinas' concept of proximity embraces the question of distance and closeness. The point of view that Levinas develops, the basis of which is justice rather than freedom, and expressed in the Face of autrui, seems to me to bring with it the possibility of appropriate rethinking of Jung and the role of justice in mediation as ethical practice. Philosophies that deal with the rise of the subject very often elide early experience, and treat the subject as if s/he springs fully formed into the world, and they often ignore the insights of psychologies that do deal with infancy and childhood.
