Contributors

Agnes Sobolewska Alsberg, PhD is a historian, literary scholar, and translator. She holds dual doctorates in Cultural and Religious Studies and in Central European Studies (Paris-Sorbonne and University of Warsaw). She is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago and a psychoanalyst-in-training at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Sobolewska Alsberg is the author of several books, including Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Narrative Assemblages of Self-Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction . Her work has been published in numerous journals, including The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, European Journal of Life Writing, Oxford German Studies, and Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Since 2021, she has been actively promoting Sándor Ferenczi's thought and work in Poland.

Richard H. Armstrong, PhD writes on classical receptions and the history of psychoanalysis. He is author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Cornell University Press, ) and numerous chapters and articles on Freud's interest in antiquity. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook to Psychoanalysis and Classical Reception (Bloomsbury Academic) and A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic (Wiley-Blackwell, ). With Paul Allen Miller, he is co-editor of the series Classical Memories / Modern Identities with Ohio State University Press. He was also co-curator of the exhibition Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire at the Freud Museum London . He teaches at the University of Houston.

Delia Battin is a child and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, a fellow of The International Psychoanalytic Association, a member of IPTAR, of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, of the Association of

Child Analysis. She is on the facul