A Lacanian Approach to Autism

Dilemmas of Givingand Receiving
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7509-1
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Psychoanalytic treatment of autism has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent decades. It now focuses on difficulties in interaction between parents and children, leading to what is termed here a “failure to dance,” a failure to pick up on each other’s cues, to respond to each other’s needs and wants. The children end up feeling uninvited into their parents’ world, and the parents end up feeling rebuffed and despondent.

Jacques Lacan’s work can shed light on what goes wrong between parents and children such that giving and receiving are rejected, recognition and reciprocity are refused, looks and words cannot be exchanged, pain and joy cannot be shared. Lacan’s work can also be helpful for developing individualized treatment that will allow a child to stop turning away from, blocking, and circumventing adults, and instead begin to speak to them, intelligibly, and in the hope of being heard, comforted, and appreciated.

Relying on a deep grasp of the nature of language and modes of language acquisition, psychoanalysis can teach us how to approach infants on their way to autism in a manner that re-invites them into the world and helps them to find a pathway of their own in life. And it can teach us how to work with children, adolescents, and adults who are already clearly autistic in their functioning, assisting them in finding an independent place for themselves in the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fink, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Bibliographical Note
Preface

Introduction

Part I: Conundrums of Recognition and Reciprocity

Chapter 1: Different Ways to Be in Language: Different Pathways to Language Acquisition

Chapter 2: The Invitation into the World: What it Takes to Feel Welcomed

Chapter 3: The Invitation into the World in the Different Clinical Structures

Part II: A Lacanian Approach to the Treatment of Autism

Chapter 4: What is a Subject?: "The Lacanian Subject 2.0"

Chapter 5: Treating Autism

Part III: Comparing and Contrasting Autism with the Other Clinical Structures

Chapter 6: A Fourth Form of Negation?

Chapter 7: How the Structures Differ in Terms of the Drives

Chapter 8: Giving and Receiving in Neurosis, Psychosis, and ion

Chapter 9: How Jouissance is Dealt with in the Different Structures

Part IV: Preliminary Conclusions

Chapter 10: Can We Still Call this Psychoanalysis?

Appendix
The Science around Autism: Do Vaccines Play any Role?

Endnotes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Fink is a foremost commentator on Lacan, and a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He is a member of the psychoanalytic institute created by Jaques Lacan, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center in Pennsylvania. He served as a Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and obtained his PhD from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He is the author of numerous books on Lacan, including The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (1995) and A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (1997). Polity has published Fink’s books Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan' Seminar VIII, Transference (2015); and A Lacanian Approach to Autism: Dilemmas of Giving and Receiving (2027). He has translated several of Lacan’s works into English, including Écrits and Transference.