Impossible Return Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, - and Mournin

The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning is a work of creative non-fiction and auto-theory. It is part cancer memoir, part psychoanalytic theorizing, and part history of late-Soviet Ukraine.

List of contents

Prologue. The Body of the Analyst 1. Technology 2. Looking Inside 3. The Zone 4. Cut! 5. "...not without object!" 6. The Sarcophagus 7. A Dialogue on Loss: Love Letters to Audre Lorde 8. Queer Temporalities 9. Prosthesis 10. Perestroika 11. Anniversary 12. The Voice 13. Tattoo Epilogue. Rem(a)inder References

About the author

Anna Fishzon is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author and co-editor of two previous books.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Fishzon, Fishzon Anna
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032811956
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281195-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ukraine, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Personal & public health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Personal and public health / health education, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability