Issue 5: Editorial

It is not inappropriate that now, when on the one hand psychoanalysis is being questioned once again as to its scientific status and when on the ofher hand there is in Ireland a great flowering of interest in both the practice and teaching of psychoanalysis, that this issue of The Letter opens with two papers which return to Lacan's formulations with regard to The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Implicit in the first article which appears here, Cormac Gallagher's commentary on Lacan's own synopsis of that work, is a question which might well have made a more apt title for his work, a question which reminds us, in a way which is as pertinent here today as when it was first posed thirty years ago in France, that if one is to have anything to offer to the field of psychoanalysis then certain issues must be faced.…