Carol Rama, 2004
The behavior that people involved with autistic children often view as ‘weird’ is, in fact, these children's response to their world: their way of being.
As such, it serves us, in the dynamics of the transference, to create a possible environment for them in which ‘weirdness’ can gradually be tried out as subjective style.
Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminar VII, 1959-60, L'Éthique de la psychanalyse/ The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, classes on “The Problem of Sublimation,” Jan. 13 to March 9, 1960. Winnicott, D.W.: Playing and Reality (1971), ch. 1, “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena” (1953). Orrado, I. and Vives, J.-M.: Autisme et médiation. Bricoler une solution pour chacun (Paris, Arkhê, 2020); “The autistic and his signature” (2023), Parceque ce n’est pas ça: A Journal of the Lacanian Field (https://parcequeca.com).
Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom.
Fee: $40. For students with ID: $20. Registration details to follow.
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Jean-Michel Vives is a professor of clinical psychopathology at Université Nice, Sophia Antipolis and practices psychoanalysis in Toulon, France. He is the author of many essays on the invocatory drives, autism, music therapy, and clinical approaches to psychosis, and his books include La voix sur le divan and La médiation par le théâtre: Freud et Dionysos sur la scène thérapeutique. He has also directed several theater and opera performances.
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