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Abstract

Nearly three decades after the adoption of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), an important achievement in a long struggle for recognition of diversity in the functional needs of human beings, intolerance towards others with such needs still represents an entrenched impediment in the social that disproportionately exceeds those impediments that we signify in the body of another. Ontological and psychological complaints that emanate from projects aimed at evaluating the interaction between a human and a robot will serve as a scheme to identify the emotional reactions that permeate intolerance towards that other person to whom we attribute a disability. To describe such reactions of intolerance, robotics engineers have adopted the psychoanalytic notion of the ominous. From a psychoanalytic perspective, the ominous refers to the horror we feel at something or someone, which, although familiar, is strange or different. For Freud, the impediment in one another awakens in us the sensation of the ominous and this emotional sensation arises from the most primitive destinies of the drive.