Can the Monster Speak?

Name: Can the Monster Speak?
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A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By Paul Preciado

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In Can the Monster Speak?, Paul Preciado delivers a powerful exploration of identity and power structures within academic and institutional settings. The book is a reflective essay drawn from Preciado's experience speaking at a conference, confronting societal norms and challenging the boundaries of gender and authority. It's a thought-provoking examination of voice, identity, and the turbulent relationship between individual expression and institutional control.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in exploring critical discussions about identity, gender, and power dynamics within contemporary culture and politics. Paul's work provides a thought-provoking examination of societal norms, challenging conventional perceptions with a powerful, original voice. If you enjoy works that push intellectual boundaries and inspire new perspectives, this could be a compelling read for you.

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference. Causing a veritable outcry among the assembly, Preciado called for a radical transformation of psychoanalytic discourse and practices, denouncing its complicity with the ideology of sexual difference.

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In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for whom he is a 'mentally ill person' suffering from 'gender dysphoria', Preciado draws inspiration in his lecture from Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy', in which a monkey tells an assembly of scientists that human subjectivity is a cage comparable to one made of metal bars.

Demonstrating the discipline's complicity with the ideology of sex, gender and sexual difference dating back to the colonial era, Preciado was heckled and booed and unable to finish.

The lecture, filmed on smartphones, ended up published online, where fragments were transcribed, translated and published with no regard for exactitude. Eighteen months on, Can the Monster Speak? is published in a definitive translation for the first time.

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The book by Paul Preciado offers a radical critique of psychoanalytic traditions, drawing on decades of trans theory to present a bold challenge to existing paradigms. It speaks in a unique, compelling way that shifts focus from established voices to those previously marginalized, urging political thought. The work is described as powerful and important, with a rebellious style that has been compared to Kafka's.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781913097585

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Contributors:

Translated by Frank Wynne
Translated by Frank Wynne

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 88

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Non-Fiction Paul Preciado

About the Author

Paul B. Preciado is the author of Counter-Sexual Manifesto (Columbia University Press), Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics (The Feminist Press) and Pornotopia (Zone Books), for which he was awarded the Sade Prize in France. He was Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and Director of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 to 2017 he was the Curator of Public Programmes of documenta 14. He is currently the Resident Philosopher at the Centre Pompidou and lives in Paris, France.