Dimapur, January 24 (MExN): The PG & Research Department of English at St Joseph University, on January 22, conducted the fourth lecture of its series on “Interdisciplinary/Trans-discursive Critical Thinking.”
This series is aimed at promoting the development of critical thinking abilities and nurturing the art of questioning, a SJU release said.
Dr V Vijayalayan, Assistant Professor of English, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai was the speaker of the fourth lecture on entitled “Psychoanalytic Paradigms in Disability Studies”
In the lecture, Dr Vijayalayan gave a detailed lecture on the concept and idea of ‘disability’ from a psychological perspective and highlighted on Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and how Jacques Lacan had taken forward the theory of psychoanalysis and disability.
The speaker also mentioned how disable people are viewed, characterized, perceived in a society in a prejudicial way, the release said, while further highlighting on ‘Defense Mechanism’ and ‘Disability Oppression’.
He also pointed how often humans come under pressure from troubling impulses that could ruminate from either the unconscious or the super ego.
Disability is a real prospect that everyone is scared of subconsciously within disability studies, that is why one speaks of temporarily abled-bodies because when one get old we need help from other people that is why everybody is epitomized as temporarily abled body, he noted.
He concluded that at some point disability is a reality that all has to confront, the release said.
Afterwards, a volley of questions from the audience was moderated by Professor Selvin Vedamanickam, it added.
