O mundo dos objetos: uma via de conexão possível para o autista?

Abstract

This dissertation arose from our clinical experience and aimed to investigate the function that has certain objects chosen by the autistic, prioritizing autistic autobiographies as the field of analysis to reach the intended focus. In this course, we investigate autism and its diagnostic specificities in its differences with psychosis, emphasizing in autism, the foraclusion of the hole that results in the non constitution of a body for the autistic, since if there is no hole, there is no edge. Concomitantly, we pursue the everyday object through time, in addition to exploring some mythological figures that carry in their hands, objects that identify them and carry a full significance. Because it is a research that has as its theoretical weight, psychoanalysis, it was essential to go through the question of the object in Freud. We consider it as equally important to approach the theory of the transitional object in Winnicott, while we search in Lacan, what he, in his return to Freud, marked a difference and established as object a. All this in the attempt to promote approximations and distances of these objects quoted with the object named autistic by psychoanalysis. To achieve our goal, we carried out a bibliographical research in which we investigated three autobiographies of autistic (Daniel Tammet, Temple Grandin and Donna Williams), emphasizing the existence and the place that these objects occupied in the constitution of these subjects, that is, their pacifying function, because, faced with the unbridled enjoyment of the autistic, objects serve as a barrier, limit, edge, protection, and contribute to the creation and maintenance of the social bond. Finally, when we try to understand the relationship between the autistic and these objects that do not pair with any other, since they are unparalleled, we were interested in investigating their usefulness in the treatment of the psychoanalytic clinic of autism.