The Impossible Return: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning
(Routledge, 2025)
Anna Fishzon
Friday, November 6, 2026 • 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Through the author’s opening account of her own experience of breast cancer, mastectomy, and reconstruction, The Impossible Return offers a psychoanalytic meditation on other losses, unfinished mournings, and sublimations. Adopting the recursive structure of analysis, it explores how traumatic rupture may be transformed into prosthesis as both subtraction and appendage, crossing the animate and inanimate. Ultimately it examines the sinthome’s suturing of self and feeling in the breach of illness, and seeks new ways to think about impasse itself.
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