Subjectivation in autistic children: an inquiry into the ways of recognizing the subject
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subjectivation, autism, subject, singularity, diagnosisAbstract
This essay problematizes the notion of subjectivation in autistic children by addressing a prior question: from what conception of the subject do we attempt to recognize what is referred to as subjectivation? It examines how diagnostic categories and historical, medical, psychological, pedagogical, and psychoanalytic frameworks intervene in the ways autistic children’s manifestations are observed, named, and interpreted. The analysis raises an epistemological tension: theoretical categories are necessary for knowledge, yet they may become predetermined measures of what is expected to be found. From this tension, subjectivation is approached as a process that requires attention to the singular ways in which children’s relationships with language, the body, objects, and others are constructed and transformed, without assigning meaning to their manifestations in advance or reducing them to previously established parameters.
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