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

By (author) Paul Preciado, Translated by Frank Wynne

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In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ã‰cole de la Cause Freudienneâ€™s annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for whom he is a â€˜mentally ill personâ€™ suffering from â€˜gender dysphoriaâ€™, Preciado draws inspiration in his lecture from Kafkaâ€™s â€˜A Report to an Academyâ€™, in which a monkey tells an assembly of scientists that human subjectivity is a cage comparable to one made of metal bars. Demonstrating the disciplineâ€™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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