The Cut and Misunderstanding

Authors

  • Alejandro Olivos

Keywords:

Autism, Language, Misunderstanding, Trauma, Cut

Abstract

 

This article attempts to approach the question of the cut in analytic practice and in directing interviews with parents of autistic children admitted to the institution. The clinic of autism can be envisaged in its relations with language to develop a crucial aspect of the symbolic register: the notion of misunderstanding. This notion was introduced by Jacques Lacan early in his teaching and can be traced to his initial work on structural linguistics till his final pronouncements in the 70’s on topology and the nodal clinic. In his very last seminar of 1980, entitled Dissolution!, Lacan associates the notion of misunderstanding with that of trauma that leads on to this idea that one is already traumatized by misunderstanding that exists between parents. We hope that these formulations will provide us with elements to better conceptualize direction and organization of interviews with parents of autistic subjects admitted to Institutions.

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Author Biography

Alejandro Olivos

Alejandro Olivos is Clinical Psychologist and a graduate of University of Chile. He has trained with an institution for psychotic patients in Santiago, Chile. In 2004 moved to Paris to continue his studies having obtained a Master’s and a Doctorate at the Department of Psychoanalysis at University of Paris VIII. He is a psychoanalyst of Lacanian orientation associated with the École de la Cause Freudienne. He has worked as a clinical psychologist at diverse institutions treating autistic and psychotic subjects in Paris. In 2018 he returned to Chile where he is a psychoanalyst in private practice performing teaching assignments at universities as an associate of the NEL (Nuela Escuela Lacaniana) affiliated to the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP). He is the author of a book on autism from Éditions L’Harmattan (Paris) and many articles in journals that specialize in psychoanalysis.

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Published

2021-11-05

How to Cite

Olivos , A. . (2021). The Cut and Misunderstanding. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 4(2), 151–166. Retrieved from http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/100