Abstract

FREIRE, Ana Beatriz. The constitution of the subject and the otherness: considerations regarding psychosis and autism. Estilos clin. [online]. 2002, vol.7, n.13, pp.78-91. ISSN 1415-7128.

The article has as a target the subject constitution study from the point of view of the Other's field, especially concerning the relationship with the objects and with what Lacan named as object a. We will deal with the relationship of the Other in the constitution of reality, and in particular, the relation of reality within psychosis. In a different way of what happens with neurosis, it is shown that, concerning psychosis, there is an absence of the function of the father, thus the absence of what Lacan, in 1966, called "operation of the extraction of the object a". Finally, it will be dealing with the relationship of autism with the Other and with some possible treatment issues. We noted that the autistic problem is less than a blockage in humanization process; in tact, it is an excess - which is felt as an invasion - of the relationship between subject and the Other.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; subject; reality; otherness; psychosis and autism.

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