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

“Neither then nor now did I ask to be 'given' freedom. The powerful constantly promise freedom, but how could they give subalterns something that they themselves do not know? A paradox: they who bind are as imprisoned as they whose movements are hobbled by the knotted ropes. (…) No one can give what they do not have and what they have never known.”
― Paul B. Preciado, Je suis un monstre qui vous parle : Rapport pour une académie de psychanalystes