Anna Fishzon

The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Anna Fishzon's personal narrative is interspersed with interludes exploring other "reconstructions" (Chernobyl's sarcophagus, the perestroika years) as well as psychoanalytic reflections on anxiety, prosthesis, hypochondria, and tattooing. The authorial voice is intentionally polyphonic: elegiac, humorous, at times academic and philosophical. Each chapter is set in the context of the writing process, with discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine. The prologue examines the psychoanalyst's bodily presence in treatment and includes clinical vignettes that discuss the impact of remote therapy sessions during lockdown, and an epilogue provides a meditation on repetition compulsion and the impossibility of mourning fully.

Through theoretical and personal reflections on mourning and recovery after catastrophic collapses of psyche, body, and place, this book makes original contributions to psychoanalysis, Slavic and cultural studies, trauma studies, film criticism, and history. This unique work will be relevant to readers interested in psychoanalytic studies, cancer and disability studies and critical theory, and academics of autotheory and memoir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040391488
• Artikelnr.: 74623883

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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