Can the Monster Speak?

Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

Can the Monster Speak?
Frank Wynne, Paul Preciado
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2 Jun 2021 UK
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9781913097585
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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 ' 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. Speaking from his own ' mutant' cage, Preciado does not so much criticize the homophobia and transphobia of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis as demonstrate the discipline' s complicity with the ideology of sexual difference dating back to the colonial era, an ideology which is today rendered obsolete by technological advances allowing us to alter our bodies and procreate differently. Further, Preciado calls for a radical transformation of psychological and psychoanalytic discourse and practices, arguing for a new epistemology capable of allowing for a multiplicity of living bodies without reducing the body to its sole heterosexual reproductive capability, and without legitimizing hetero-patriarchal and colonial violence. Causing a veritable outcry among the assembly, 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? REPORT TO AN ACADEMY OF PSYCHOANALYSTS is published in a definitive translation for the first time.
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 Curator of Public Programmes of documenta 14. He is currently Curator of Public Programmes at the Palais de Tokyo and lives in Paris, France. His next book, VIRUS & REVOLUTION, will appear with Fitzcarraldo Editions and Graywolf Press in autumn 2022.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913097585
Published: 2 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128

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