ABSTRACT
This chapter begins to examine the cultural-historical conditions for psychoanalysis to exist, looking at underlying assumptions about the self and others in Central and Western Europe, and describing the ways in which different versions of psychoanalysis have taken root in Japan and Korea. This throws into relief how ideas about subjectivity, which make it possible for this clinical practice to take and work, are necessarily local, limited. This examination is one way of tackling the opposition between particularity and universality.
