Does psychoanalysis assume different characteristics in different national contexts? Does the impact of cultural difference manifest itself in different approaches to theorizing and to the work of the consulting room? This volume would seem to provide a resounding affirmative to these questions while simultaneously demonstrating the common concerns of clinical practice everywhere. Theory and Observation: Redefining the Field is the second volume in a series that reproduces in English a selection of papers originally published in the preceding year in La Rivista di Psicoanalisi, the journal of