ABSTRACT
This chapter further teases out the simultaneous relation between the psychic and the social, individual, and collective dimensions of abjection through the life history narrative of Anne-Marie. Important in Anne-Marie’s narrative is the resistance to the multi-dimensional forms of abjection she encountered. However, Anne-Marie’s life history narrative also exposes how resistance sometimes fails, requires perseverance, or demands alliance with others. Consequently, in this chapter the author lays out possibilities for a collective response to abjection, which requires a relational ethics that resists or reclaims abjection. The multi-dimensional forms of abjection encountered by Anne-Marie necessitate a collective response in order to disarm the ability to abject disabled and other precarious bodies.
