Disability remains among the least theorized subjects in psychoanalysis. This is notable but not surprising: the relational anxiety that disability provokes in the non-disabled is pervasive, and psychoanalysts are not exempt. This paper introduces the concept of the disabling object — a persecutory internal structure through which social prejudice and structural ableism are psychically internalized and perpetuated. Integrating psychoanalytic ideas on racism, anxiety, and object relations with insights from critical disability studies, the paper explores how disability becomes a site of projected anxiety and disavowed vulnerability, shaping internal, interpersonal, and social experience. Through theoretical elaboration and clinical and personal vignettes, the disabling object is shown to obstruct symbolization, foreclose grief, and reproduce social hierarchies within the mind. Psychoanalysis, Dr. Crosby argues, must confront its own ableist investments to help clinicians sustain contact with psychic pain and difference as generative rather than annihilating.