Abstract

WAJNTAL, Mira. Reflections on autism clinics. Estilos clin. [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.3, pp. 532-542. ISSN 1415-7128.

The psychoanalytic clinics with autistic children have been achieving results that bring some metapsychological advances, especially in regard to the understanding of the fates of the drive, besides the establishment of the circuit of the drive. However, this does not necessarily imply a corresponding knowledge of the etiologic causes. The clinical work carried out on the alienation/separation axis leads to a marked improvement in the child's condition, but it is not always sufficient to determine the causes of autism. Starting from the concept of psychic causality and the comparison of two clinical cases, we will discuss whether the manifestation and the symptom are under the cause/consequence logic or, being motivated by the work of distinct laws - the unconscious - differ from this logic.

Keywords : autism; psychoanalysis with children; psychic causality; transfer.

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