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Psychoanalysis and Disability

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Is There a Relationship Between Disability and Castration?

I don't necessarily want to say we're all disabled, but I guess what I would say is that there's a way in which disability unlocks something that's universal about subjectivity. And so I feel like if it didn't have that universalist dimension, then there would just be no, it would have no way of gaining adherence that didn't particularly belong to it themselves. So I feel like it has to have that dimension to it. Todd, I will just give a very, like a very concrete example of this. Like for a few months he was,. I walked around with six inches of my skull missing. Right? He had to get new glasses because they broke in the accident

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