Cuerpo, Emociones y Discapacidad: la experiencia de un “desahucio” vital

Abstract

Modernity has built us as “individuals”, individuals with rights and obligations, and economic individuals, with instrumental
egoistic interests. This is a contradictory individuality, because its first dimension focuses on public interests
and the second one on private interests. They are conjugatable because, plus individuals, we are subjects, with rational
abilities. Through our rational thinking we can evaluate and decide which is more important, from a Weberian
rationality, more finitit than instrumental, in each case. This modern individual-subject has no body, nor emotions,
acts under neutral principles, deliberatives, it is an abstract entity with rational voluntarism. But, in fact, in many
cases we don’t think what we do. Persons with disability have been excluded from this double imputation, and reveal,
from their “nudity” as people, the gap between the imputation and the reality. We take as reference two life stories
to show how a corporal and emotional evition emerges.

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