Old Age/Disability Representation

Evans (1998),drawing on the works of Freud and other psychoanalysis, states: "Disable people are seen as childish, dependant and underdeveloped and are reading as 'other' and are punished by being excluded from ordinary life. Thus popular images and rhetoric of disabled people abound which comfort us with people who are imperfect,helpless, disgusting, dribbling- a threat to rigid ego boundaries."