Identification in autism: A study of the attachment with animals in autobiographies
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https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v21i3.50652Keywords:
autism, autobiography, psychoanalysis, animal, identification.Abstract
This paper focuses on the construction of compensatory imaginary identifications anchored on the attachament of autists with animals. Our qualitative analysis of these autobiographical books evidenced how autistic children who manifested severe symptoms in childhood, left the classic autism, became speaking autistic and were able to develop in all areas, anchored on the relation with an animal. Through the autobiographies about autists Iris, Dale, Fraser and George, we analyse the paradigmatic attachment with Thula, Henry, Billy and Ben, anchoring this path of construction of the constitutive identifications of the ego. After the description and characterization of the traits and functions incorporated in this identificatory relationships we’ll cover some consequences of those. Despite not being traits incorporated from others/parents, we highlight the feasibility of a new libidinal regulation in autism. Articulating authors in the field of psychoanalysis that dedicated themselves to think about autism with the autobiographical accounts, we consider this approach enabled us to fulfill the proposed goal of deepening scientific knowledge about autism.
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