LIMA, Maria Celina Peixoto; FONTENELE, Thalita Castello Branco    GASPARD, Jean-Luc. The autist as a figure of segregation. []. , 70, 3, pp.113-127. ISSN 1809-5267.

Considering the clinical-political problematic related to autism, our objective is to discuss how the autistic subject represents one of the figures of the segregation of our time. We start from a contextualization about the new techno-scientific rationality of contemporary medicine and its effects on the diagnostic criteria/ classification in the field of mental health, and then we situate the questions related to what has been forming a political battle about the treatment of autism. Thus, we observe that autism actualizes the notion of generalized child, with which Lacan referred to the subject-object of science, the one whose truth is in the hands of specialists. We conclude that Lacan's contribution remains current, and - if in 1967 he developed his ideas about segregation in response to the child's psychiatry - we question what he would have said today, 50 years later, in relation to the current scenario of mental health policies.

: Psychoanalysis; Autism; Publichealth; Segregation.

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