Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Japan: An Interview with Dr. Luke S. Ogasawara

Abstract

The following is an interview with Dr. Luke S. Ogasawara, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and director of the Tokyo Lacan School. Dr. Ogasawara studied psychoanalysis in London and Paris during the 1980’s and obtained a Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) from theDépartement de psychanalyse - Université Paris 8 in 1988. In this interview I speak with Dr. Ogasawara about Lacan’s comments on the possibility of conducting psychoanalysis in the Japanese language, apophatic ontology as a foundation of psychoanalysis, the concept of sublimation in Lacanian psychoanalysis, the effect of globalization on the Japanese language, and mental health in Japan.