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Can the Monster Speak?

Can the Monster Speak?

Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
PhilosophyPolitics & Society
Pages
104
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

In "Can the Monster Speak?", Paul B. Preciado critically examines the historical and systemic pathologization of non-normative sexualities and gender identities within psychoanalysis. This powerful essay challenges the foundational assumptions of psychiatric frameworks, advocating for a radical re-evaluation of how society understands sex and gender. It gives voice to those historically silenced and labeled as 'monsters' by traditional thought.

Prose complexity
10/10

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InformativeIntellectualThought-ProvokingComplex

Genres

Philosophy Politics & Society Psychology Sociology

Authors

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Frank Wynne

Frank Wynne is a literary translator who brings French and Spanish works to English readers. He is known for translating Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 2 and Pedro Almodóvar’

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Paul B. Preciado

Spanish philosopher and queer theorist. Preciado is a trans man. ---------- Beatriz Preciado (Burgos, 1970), es filósofa y activista queer. Tras licenciarse cum laude en Filosofía por la Universidad de Comillas, obtiene un Máster de Filosofía Contemporánea y Teoría de Género en la New School for Social Research de Nueva York, donde estudia con Agnes Heller y Jacques Derrida. Actualmente realiza el doctorado en Filosofía y Teoría de la Arquitectura en la Universidad de Princeton. También es...