Can the Monster Speak?

A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

AvPaul Preciado

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the École 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-02
Mått:125 x 197 x 12 mm
Vikt:130 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fitzcarraldo Editions
Antal sidor:88
Förlag:Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN:9781913097585
Originaltitel:Je suis un monstre qui vous parle: Rapport pour une académie de psychanalystes
Översättare:Frank Wynne

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Freudiansk psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
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Mer om författaren

Paul B. Preciado is the author of An Apartment on Uranus, Counter-Sexual Manifesto, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics and Pornotopia, and wrote and directed the film Orlando, My Political Biography. He is the Director of the Institute for Planetary Transition at LUMA Arles, France. He was born in Spain and lives in France.

Recensioner i media

‘Read here the words of a monster, brought to you unedited and without embellishment! Yes, it is true – the monster speaks! But he does not speak the language of castration and penis envy, nor is he fluent in lack and misrecognition. This monster speaks in his own words, and he does not speak as a subject, as an individual but rather as part of a constantly mutating “somatheque”. The monster announces the fall of the father, the end of Oedipus, the solidarity of the monsters. This short book is powerful, dangerous, important. Read it alone but share it with friends. Whisper its secrets and tell everyone its message –the monster of whom you speak, has left his cage.’—Jack Halberstam, author of Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variability