ABSTRACT
The creative act is the true proof of a subjectivity that resists the devastation of handicap and of everything that is associated with it. It determines difference; it creates, albeit just for an instant, the flash of a difference which is almost imperceptible but, at the same time, irreducible to what alienates the subject in a mortiferous, passivising way. The handicapped subjects coming to a socio-educational centre or a cooperative find it practically impossible to confidently use such a complex register as the linguistic one. The “normal” person would like the handicapped to be different from the way they are; they would like them to be healthy, attentive, clear-minded. The educator becoming chronic is presented as a consequence of the handicapped person becoming chronic. The repetition of the disabled people’s conducts becomes close to being chronic when repetition takes on the shape of stereotyping.
