Brenner The Autistic Subject

On the Threshold of Language
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-50715-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The Palgrave Lacan Series

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally linked to one’s identity and basic practices of existence, offering a rigorous alternative to treating autism as a mental or physical disorder. Drawing on Freud and Lacan’s psychoanalytic understanding of the subject , Brenner outlines the unique features of the autistic subjective structure and provides a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary work on the psychoanalysis of autism.  The book examines research by theorists including Jean-Claude Maleval, Éric Laurent, Rosine and Robert Lefort that has been largely unavailable to Anglophone audiences until now. In this book autism is posited to be a singular subjective structure not reducible to neurosis or psychosis. In accordance with the Lacanian approach, autism is examined with detailed attention to the subject’s use of language, culminating in Brenner’s “ autistic linguistic spectrum .” A compelling read for students and scholars of psychoanalysis and autism researchers and clinicians.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brenner, Leon S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Jean-Claude Maleval.- Part I: Subjectivity Negativity.- Chapter 1. Autism as a Mode of Being.- Chapter 2. Exclusion as a Constitutive Feature of the Subject.- Part II: Neurotic Repression and Psychotic Foreclosure.- Chapter 3: Repression and the Neurotic Subject.- Chapter 4: Foreclosure and the Psychotic Subject.- Part III: The Autistic Subject.- Chapter 5: Autistic Foreclosure in the Model of Repression.- Chapter 6: The Object of Autistic Foreclosure.- Chapter 7: The Autistic Linguistic Spectrum.- Chapter 8: Autism as a Singular Subjective Structure.

Über Autor(innen)

Leon S. Brenner is a research fellow at the University of Potsdam, Institute for Philosophy, Germany. His fields of interest include Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, contemporary French philosophy and autism research.