The Sinthomatic thread in autism process

Authors

  • Cirlana Rodrigues de Souza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v21i3p599-617

Keywords:

autism, subject, constitution, psychoanalysis, sinthome

Abstract

Based on Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, this article addresses the subjective impasses established in the process of subjective constitution of a child in psychoanalytical treatment in process of an autistic resolution and their attempts to know-how to do with language in that process. I start from the following question: what is the function of the child’s insistent language in a speech not suitable for their communication? My hypothesis is that the child takes language as an attempt to know-how with their symptom giving it a status of sinthome; a sinthomatic thread as a way in which the subject in constitution answers the imperative of the real. I discuss the issue of psychological diagnosis and its relation to the constitution of the subject and the psychic structure not set in childhood. I emphasize the double causation of the subject and explore the Borromean logic in autism from this child’s speech and language

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Author Biography

  • Cirlana Rodrigues de Souza
    Psicóloga e psicanalista. Doutora em Estudos Linguísticos pelo Instituto de Letras e Linguística da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia

Published

2016-12-17

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How to Cite

Souza, C. R. de. (2016). The Sinthomatic thread in autism process. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 21(3), 599-617. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v21i3p599-617