ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the space for development of psychoanalysis in China, how the essence of Chinese culture helps to understand psychoanalysis more deeply, and possible guidelines for the combination of Chinese culture and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic knowledge is useful not only for understanding individuals, but for understanding families, groups, and society. China is a country with thousands of years of cultural history. In its ever-flowing river of history, there are three ideologies and religions as well as philosophies, which have come to the fore and constituted the three main pillars of Chinese culture. They are Confucianism, Daoism, and Chinese Buddhism. Psychoanalysis is being introduced to China at a complex historical moment. Psychoanalysis offers a new and different way of helping people by providing the analyst as a real external person who is with the patient in the same physical space and time, listening closely to his specific personal voice, and, particularly, giving him understanding, empathy, and interpretation.
