Luke Thurston is Director of the David Jones Centre at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004) and Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism (2012), the co-editor (with Scott Brewster) of The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2018) and the translator of Jean Laplanche's The Unfinished Copernican Revolution (2020).