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.
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.
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.
