Abstract

ROCHA, Fúlvio Holanda. Questions about otherness in infantile autism. Estilos clin. [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.27, pp. 150-171. ISSN 1415-7128.

Since its invention, despite some controversy, autism has usually been characterized as a severe damage to the bond between the autistic child and the otherness. In this work, we discuss otherness in autism by means of the concept of Other: would this subjective condition come from the absence of a relationship with the Other or from the presence of a specific bond with the Other? It seems to us that the autistic situation implies an attempt of protecting oneself from the verb, from the field of language. As a consequence, autism becomes determined by a specific bond to an invasive Other, who threatens to swallow the autistic children in its absolute jouissance.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; autism in the childhood; Other.

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