Disability Representation

Jessica EVANS (1998), drawing on the works of Freud and other psychoanalysis, states:

“disabled people are seen as childish, dependent and underdeveloped and are regarding as ‘other’ and are punished by being excluded from ordinary life. Thus popular images and rhetroicof disabled people abound which comfort us with people who are imperfect, helpless, unattractive, disgusting, shitty and dribbling” (Evans 1998)

As Cumberbatch & Negrine (1992), Barnes (1992) and Longmoore (1987)

Point out studios of the representation show that disabled people are screened out of television fiction or else occur in a limited number of roles.

Jordanova stated in 1989

“The idea of otherness is complicated, but certain themes are common: the treatment of others as more like an object, something to be managed and possessed, and as dangerous, wild and threatening, at the same time, the other becomes an entity whose very separateness inspired curiosity, invites inquiring knowledge”

Andy Medhurst (1997)

Argues in terms of power relations and the construction of stereo types: “They are awful because they are not like us”

It is seriously worth noting that theory concerning disability can be applied to the elderly with case. According to Evans (1998)

“Old people in our culture are also segregated and treated as though they are waiting to die. There are close associations between dependency, illness, dying and death. It seems that increasingly in our culture there are pressures that encourage a reversion to infantile feelings which have to be madly defending against”