Through various clinical experiences – the psychotic mother and her baby, newborns in intensive care, autism, and others we will discuss – we've come to the hypothesis of an initial supposition of a subject, resting on a logic of the sign before or beyond the signifier, displacing the notion of an initial dyad.

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.