Anna Fishzon, PhD, FIPA
Emma Lieber, PhD, LP
Please join us for a reading of The Impossible Return – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning by Anna Fishzon, followed by an interview of the author by Emma Lieber.
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.
Anna Fishzon, PhD, FIPA is a licensed psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in New York City. She is Member, Supervisor, and Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and a training analyst and faculty member at Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics (New York). She is also an active Participant in the Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York). Dr. Fishzon has authored two books: The Impossible Return: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (Routledge, 2025) and Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); she is co-editor with Emma Lieber of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave, 2023). For a decade she taught interdisciplinary courses at Williams College, Columbia University, and Duke University, and authored scholarly articles on Russian history, consumer culture, temporality, late socialism, animation, and opera.
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