Tá an Neamhchomhfhiosach Struchtúrtha mar Theanga: If the unconscious is structured like a language, how might speaking in tongues indicate something singular in the structurings of an Irish Gaelic unconscious?

Ray O’Neillis a writer and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He lectures at Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin where he is a Research Associate with the Centre for Gender and Women Studies. He is a regular presence in the Irish media, co-hosting the RTE television show Then Comes Marriage. He is a Registered Practioner member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI). His most recent authored publications include the book chapter “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Psychoanalysis Burn and Surrealism Bubble” published in Fenris Wolf (Trapart Books, 2017), “‘Tá Súil Agam’: Deadly Visions of History in Ireland” (Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses/Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20(3), December 2019) and an essay on transgenerational trauma within the Wilde family entitled “The Sons of the Father Fall on the Sin,” published in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexuality (Cambridge University Press, 2020).