This issue of Breac, "Ireland in Psychoanalysis," was guest edited by Joseph Valente (University of Buffalo), Macy Todd (University of Buffalo), and Seán Kennedy (Saint Mary's University). Its contents include:

 

1. Joseph Valente — "Psychoanalysis in Ireland—Ireland in Psychoanalysis"

2. Macy Todd — A Lumper in the Throat: Famine and Object a

 

3. "Psychoanalysis in Ireland": An Interview with Noreen Giffney

 

4. Seán Kennedy — Fifty Shades of Green? Ireland and the Erotics of Austerity

5. Ed Madden — Cuckoos, Or a Natural History of the Gay Child

 

6. "Psychoanalysis in Ireland": An Interview with Barry O’ Donnell

 

7. Beryl Schlossman — Mirrors/Lacan with Joyce/Theory, Psychoanalysis and Literature

8. Andre Furlani — Samuel Beckett: From the Talking Cure to the Walking Cure

 

9. "Psychoanalysis in Irish Studies": An Interview with Margot Backus

 

10. Jen Braun — W.B. Yeats's Extimacy

11. Guinn Batten — Paul Muldoon’s Things

 

12. "Polymorphously Perverse": An Interview with Fintan Walsh

 

13. Adrian Goodwin — The Irish Ga(y)ze, or Whither my O/other

14. Ariel Watson — The Oedipal and the Everyday in Irish Theater

 

15. "Psychoanalysis in Irish Studies": An Interview with Claire Bracken