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By Lacan, Jacques; Villa, Angelo; Tavani, Annarita; Lacan, Jacques; Di Liddo, Annalisa

ISBN-10: 1782410716

ISBN-13: 9781782410713

The booklet The Hand within the Cap introduces an unique glance on handicap, a glance aiming at taking pictures the subjectivity, regardless of how vulnerable or doubtful it can be, of the unwell different. during this mild the paintings of operators can develop into a useful help to the production of the self, an important support to self-narration, and a legitimate contribution to creating one's method in the course of the entangled intricacies of language. The textual content falls into  Read more...

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Misunderstandings follow in close succession, thus originating a vicious circle which leaves no scope for escape. Psychosis surfaces in the case of Lucia’s mother. The girl has a severe mental handicap. The mother’s behaviour towards her daughter is described as instrumental. The tension generated in the relationship with the centre staff is tangible. Reality is self-evident: the mother dresses, or, more truthfully, embellishes her daughter like a doll, thus exposing her to ridicule. She enrols her in piano lessons or in English classes which the girl is totally unable to deal with.

Her parents did not dare get a divorce. They were united by handicap, and not by their faith in the indissolubility of marriage. What would they say to other people? And most of all, what would they say to themselves? Their children clearly remember the way the atmosphere changed at home. Quarrels and anger without any explicit, apparent reason became common. Any occasion to fight was good. Without being able to voice it completely, they held each other responsibile for that which had changed—or more precisely, had destroyed—their lives.

What did that mean? She was very clear and explicit. “I am not going to move from here”, she told the workers to whom the brother had turned for help. He knew they were on good terms with his sister and hoped they would convince her; he thought they would be able to make her change her mind. The workers tried to motivate her, to persuade her, but without success. The idea of her brother’s abandonment opened up an abyss in front of her. An abyss of a shapeless, nameless reality. What was that unknown thing CHAPTER TWO 25 brutally imposing itself on her?

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