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Autism and contemporary psychoanalysis - Bouasse’s optical schema and the use made of it by psychoanalyst J. Lacan in his seminars will serve as our point of departure and as our guiding principle in addressing the thorny issue of autism. The schema offers an artificial representation of the way the registers of the imaginary and the symbolic are intertwined in each living being endowed with speech, showing us the most basic constituent strata. Aut(oerotic)ism is being considered here as a deficiency in converting narcissistic libido into object libido or, using the framework of the schema, as a difficulty in the transition from i(a) to i’(a). This deficiency in representing the self and the world of objects causes the autist to produce a ’topology’ of that same world, a topology elaborating a knowledge of objects based on the pure notions of surface, gap, edge and features. The fundamentals of elaborating knowledge in the practice associated with autism are, consequently, the same as those of the branch of mathematics under consideration. Instead of a classic discourse theory for autists we would suggest a type of ’writing’ which can evolve from a practice of, for instance, origami rather than writing as a precipitation of sense.
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How to Cite: Dyck, P. (1994) “Autisme en de hedendaagse psychoanalyse”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen. 39(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95163