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

In this book, Preciado addresses the French Academy of Psychoanalysts, challenging the traditional psychoanalytic views on gender and sexuality.

He argues that psychoanalysis is structured around rigid male/female and normal/abnormal boundaries, which are outdated and complicit with heteropatriarchal and colonial violence.

The speech, which was met with hostility and booing, calls for a new epistemology that acknowledges the diversity of living bodies beyond their heterosexual reproductive capabilities.

The book is a critical examination of the need for psychoanalysis to adapt to contemporary understandings of gender and sexuality.