A constituição subjetiva do autista: uma aproximação a partir da perspectiva lacaniana

Abstract

This research sought to answer the following question: how does the subjective constitution occur in autism? To this end, a theoretical research was developed, through literature review in databases such as BVS-Psi, Scielo and Google Scholar, in addition to reading books on the subject. From the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, it was possible to approach a widespread debate about the constitution of the autistic person, questioning whether this diagnosis belongs to a psychosis structure or to a fourth one: the autistic structure. Concepts such as mirror stage, Oedipus complex, and alienation and separation were essential to think about a possible distinction between autism and psychosis. Thus, contemporary authors such as Laznik, Maleval, Jerusalinsky and Laurent were used to support the arguments presented here, besides the reading of Lacan's theory. For these psychoanalysts, distinctions were found regarding the peculiarities autistic individual, although all of them placed this diagnosis outside the psychotic structure. To think about this difference, Maleval approaches the different elements and aspects of the autistic's relationship with the Other to explain it, such as: the object a, the primacy of the sign, the retention of the voice and the sought out support in a double