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Psychoanalysis and Disability

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Disability Studies

I think the accommodation is a sign that the other, the big other, is lacking. That the authority figure doesn't see through this person who's presenting themselves as needing some kind of accommodation. Like, if I can see them as clearly lacking, then I can avoid the lack in the other and I appeal to the other's authority. So for me, what is interesting about this is the... As you put it, the envy, the like, this person is getting away with something. Right, yeah? Thank God for Russia.

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