Abstract

SANTOS, Dayanna Pereira. Autism: another structure?. Estilos clin. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.1, pp.115-128. ISSN 1415-7128.  https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v26i1p115-128.

The article proposes a discussion about one of the most significant theoretical-clinical debates in the scope of psychoanalysis: is autism a psychosis or not? Is it, or is it not, another structure? In the field of psychoanalytic theory, there are distinct premises that range from the idea of a structural similarity / difference between autism and psychosis to the conjecture of autism as a "no" structure. With this in mind, we seek to present, in this article, the conceptions of Lefort, R. and Lefort, Vorcaro and Jean-Claude Maleval, about the psychic structuring of autistic people, the approximations and distances in relation to the clinic of psychoses. In fact, we came to the understanding that considering autism as an independent structure opens up a new possibility of structural location for the subject, which implies recognizing that there is a unique way for autistic children to position themselves in relation to language.

Keywords : autism; psychosis; structure; language; psychoanalysis.

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