Autism Clinic: Autistic Children in Daycare
This paper shows how an autistic child monitored at a day hospital reaches a symptomatic construction in language, which enables him to adapt to the world whilst leaving open the question of going beyond the autistic position.
Abstract
Autism is out of the reach of language and beyond alienation, whereas psychosis, located in the field of alienation, is out of the reach of speech as Colette Soler reminds us with Lacan, referring to the two causation operations of the subject: alienation and separation. This paper is based on the case of an autistic child monitored at a day hospital. It shows how he reaches a symptomatic construction in language, which enables him to adapt to the world whilst leaving open the question of going beyond the autistic position.