liberty, equality, fraternity, and . . . vulnerability
Julia Kristeva
Translated from the French by Jeanine Herman
Disabilities are multiple—motor, sensory, psychical, mental—and singu-
lar. Each disabled person is a singular person experiencing his or her situ-
ation in a specific, different, unique way. Yet whatever the disabilities, they
confront us with incomparable exclusion, different from the others: the
disabled person opens a narcissistic identity w