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Psychoanalysis and Disability

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Is There a Relationship Between Disability and Capitalism?

The idea that we can fix the disability that we can... I think, isn't it interesting how that's related to lack in this idea that through accumulation you can fill in the lack? "That idea was pervasive and seductive for me," he says of his early days as a disabled person. He recalls trying to hold two contradictory ideas in his head at one time. 'I felt an incredible tingling of my prefrontal cortexes'

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