Deficiência visual e autismo: implicações do não olhar nos primórdios do psiquismo

Abstract

This study aimed to approach the relationship between the subjective experience of congenital visual impairment and the emergence of autistic spectrum symptoms in the beginning of the psyche constitution, in order to look at the inputs and outcomes of psychoanalytic clinics that intervene on babies and young children with these characteristics. It was also intended to raise questions concerning the clinical practicing given to this population to provide a reflection about the intervention possibilities that contribute to the full development of these children. For such purposes, clinical scene fragments will be used to provide us the dilemmas and questions that follows the researcher on her path to attend this population. This paper is a research established upon the theoretical knowledge formulated by Freud and Lacan, as its contemporary authors and commentators. Based on the Freudo-Lacanian theory, it's postulated that the sight does not correspond directly to the act of vision, but to the possibility to establish a specular relationship with the Other. The sight is then understood as one of the instauration operators of the Self on the beginnings of psyche. This way, we search a clinical-theoretical reflection about the elements presented when the established relationship is permeated by the exclusion of the sight of the Other, face the real impossibility of vision