The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language 1st Edition Leon S. Brenner

The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030507145,9783030507152,3030507149,3030507157

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030507149
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030507145
• Author(s): Leon S. Brenner

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally linked to one’s identity and basic practices of existence, offering a rigorous alternative to treating autism as a mental or physical disorder. Drawing on Freud and Lacan’s psychoanalytic understanding of the subject, Brenner outlines the unique features of the autistic subjective structure and provides a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary work on the psychoanalysis of autism.

The book examines research by theorists including Jean-Claude Maleval, Éric Laurent, Rosine and Robert Lefort that has been largely unavailable to Anglophone audiences until now. In this book autism is posited to be a singular subjective structure not reducible to neurosis or psychosis. 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.

Table contents:

Part I. Subjectivity Negativity
1. Autism as a Mode of Being
2. Exclusion as a Constitutive Feature of the Subject
Part II
3. Repression and the Neurotic Subject
4. Foreclosure and the Psychotic Subject
Part III
5. Autistic Foreclosure in the Model of Repression
6. The Object of Autistic Foreclosure
7. The Autistic Linguistic Spectrum
8. Autism as a Singular Subjective Structure

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