Book Notes: Can the Monster Speak? by Paul Preciado
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Preciado, Paul B. 2021. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts. Translated by Frank Wynne. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. In 2019, Paul Preciado, philosopher and trans man, gave a speech before École de la Cause Freudienne (School of the Freudian Cause), a society of Lacanian psychoanalysts. His speech, which challenged the very bedrock of psychoanalytic thought and accused psychoanalysis of upholding harmful regimes of ‘difference’, got him booed off the stage before he could get through even a quarter of it. The speech in complete form was later published as a small book via Fitzcarraldo editions, translated from the French by Frank Wynne. I picked it up because I realised how little I knew about transgenderism and gender and sexual identity beyond the heteronormative. Below are some of the things I learned.
Book Notes: Can the Monster Speak? by Paul Preciado
Book Notes: Can the Monster Speak? by Paul…
Book Notes: Can the Monster Speak? by Paul Preciado
Preciado, Paul B. 2021. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts. Translated by Frank Wynne. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. In 2019, Paul Preciado, philosopher and trans man, gave a speech before École de la Cause Freudienne (School of the Freudian Cause), a society of Lacanian psychoanalysts. His speech, which challenged the very bedrock of psychoanalytic thought and accused psychoanalysis of upholding harmful regimes of ‘difference’, got him booed off the stage before he could get through even a quarter of it. The speech in complete form was later published as a small book via Fitzcarraldo editions, translated from the French by Frank Wynne. I picked it up because I realised how little I knew about transgenderism and gender and sexual identity beyond the heteronormative. Below are some of the things I learned.