Losing Psychoanalysis in Translation

Buíochas daoibh as ucht an cuireadh a thabhairt sibh dom. Tá bron orm nach bhfuil mé in ann an toirbhairt a dheanamh as gaeilge.[2] I have chosen this title 'Losing psychoanalysis in translation' partly to evoke the title of a film, Lost in Translation,[3] which was ostensibly about outsiders (played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson) coping with being in a place, Japan, which they could not decipher. Actually, the film was not really about being in Japan at all, except insofar as the narrative required that they were somewhere strange; that it was Japan did not figure save as a setting for some jokes about that culture.…