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This article describes a psychic function common to analysts that was gradually revealed through clinical work with children. It is a psychic quality derived from function α, which involves analysts' capacity for reverie - their narrative function. The author presents two clinical situations where this function developed in the analytic field in relation to patients' difficulty in symbolizing. In the first case there was an early traumatic experience unavailable for representation. The analyst lent the patient her ability to represent and produced a narrative that made it possible to create a world of phantasies and transform nightmares into 'dreamable' dreams. In other words, she removed the quality of unbearable, irrepresentable reality that characterized those raw experiences encrypted in the psyche. In the second case the analyst's narrative function sought to connect with the isolation, the shell that housed a child suffering from an autistic disorder whose ability to represent had not been established. The analyst provided meaning for the patient's repetitive, stereotyped play, thus weaving the child's subjectivity and gradually introducing a notion of alterity. The author seeks to show how this function, in the thematic construction of the session, facilitated both the working-through of a traumatic situation (with the ability to share representations) and the constitution of the psychic fabric.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder/therapy , Narration , Psychoanalytic Therapy/methods , Psychological Trauma/therapy , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
Este artigo apresenta sessões conjuntas com os pais e sua filha de três anos, com transtorno global do desenvolvimento (posteriormente definido como Síndrome de Rett), incluindo traços autísticos. A criança, apática e hipotônica, com movimentos estereotipados das mãos, respondia pouco às solicitações dos adultos. Nas intervenções, procurou-se estabelecer redes de sentido que pudessem significar seu estado isolado e que resgatassem as funções parentais. Destaca-se o investimento subjetivante do analista no trabalho com crianças com transtornos autísticos. O trabalho se desenvolve a partir do setting de intervenção nas relações iniciais pais-bebê, dos conceitos de estados autísticos, de reclamação, de subjetivação e de construção da parentalidade.
This paper presents joint sessions with parents and their three year-old daughter, who shows a Pervasive Developmental Disorder (later defined as Rett Syndrome) which includes autistic features. The apathetic and hypotonic child, with stereotyped hand movements, responded very poorly to requests from adults. During the interventions, there was an effort to establish networks of meaning capable of signifying her isolated condition and which could rescue parental functions. The analyst's subjectivating investment in the work with children who have autistic disorders is highlighted. The paper develops from the intervention setting in parent-infant initial relationships and from the concepts of autistic conditions, reclamation, subjectivation and parentality construction.
Este trabajo presenta sesiones conjuntas con dos padres y su hija de tres años, con trastorno global de desarrollo (posteriormente definido como Síndrome de Rett), incluyendo trazos autísticos. La niña, apática e hipotónica, con movimientos estereotipados de las manos, respondía poco a las solicitudes de los adultos. En las intervenciones se busca establecer redes de sentido que pudieran significar su estado de asilamiento y que rescaten las funciones parentales. Se destaca la inversión subjetivante del analista en el trabajo con niños con trastornos autísticos. El trabajo se desarrolla a partir del setting de intervención en las relaciones iniciales padres-bebé, de los conceptos de estados autísticos, de reclamación, de subjeti-vación y de construcción de la paternidad.
