English
"The author presents extracts of the psychoanalytical treatments of two children with autism to illustrate how the emergence of representations related to separation consciousness, perceived as the encounter of a persecutory third object, creates existential anxieties and threatens the very formation of ""skin-containment."" The author also suggests that a splitting mechanism operates in autism, which separates
Keywords
- autism
- skin-containment
- Oedipal complex
- psychic attention
- binocular vision
- triangular space
- third object
- transference