ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how exterior forces of abjection work their way into the psychic life of many of the participants in this book. Compared to the chapters on Deb and Roger, which largely focussed on the exterior forces of abjection, this chapter focusses on the interiorisation of abjection, and illuminates how the participants drew upon normative discourses of pathology, abnormality, and disavowal in constructing their own disabled subjectivities. This chapter reveals the extent to which disabled people embody disablist and ableist norms, and the corporeal imprint of this psychic self-harm.
