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Psychoanalysis and Disability

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Is There a Different Kind of Universality Than the Other?

I think there is a predominant strain within disability studies of an inclusionist treatment, rather than this. There's the conservative reactionary position that says, let's get the disabled in a camp or somewhere else. And then I think there's the psychoanalytic dialectical left disposition, which is no, the disability stands for all of our universal exclusion. So it brings together our universality in confronting the, our shared symbolic castration.

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