Abstract

SILVA, Radamés Nicolodelli; CALZAVARA, Maria Gláucia Pires  and  MATOS, Roberto Pires Calazans. What Autistic People Teach us about their Position in Language. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.3, e12781.  Epub Nov 22, 2024. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v22i3.e12781.

In this article, we question the particular way of using language used by the autistic subject. Based on readings of autobiographies of autistic adolescents and adults and on fragments of listening to a clinical case, we used as a research method the applied psychoanalysis associated with the literature review and the construction of the clinical case from the recall of fragments of listening to the case. We made a bibliographical journey through the main authors who deal with issues related to language in autism and a journey through some autobiographical accounts of autistic subjects and their actions with enunciation. We conclude, from the Luca case, that the use of two languages to express himself, the technical language supported by his island of competence and the use of neologisms point to the structural dimension of autism. In other words, this subject, by not consenting to the incorporation of the Other’s voice, to later refuse it, demonstrates his difficulty in establishing a position of subject of the enunciation. However, in a particular way, Luca shows us his unique way of structuring a knowledge in front of the language in order to become an enunciator.

Keywords : autism; language; psychoanalysis.

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