https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2021.313

Giving the Subject a Voice. Material Taken from the Longitudinal Observation of an Autistic Child

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2021)
Submitted: August 12, 2020
Accepted: October 30, 2020
Published: August 26, 2021
Autism, intersubjectivity, affective attunement, language development.
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Maria Pediconi
maria.pediconi@uniurb.it
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4404-414X
Ricercatore di psicologia dinamica dell'Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Urbino (PU), Italy.
Luca Regini
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1540-4465
Logopedista. Laureato in Scienze e tecniche psicologiche. Diplomando presso la Scuola di Musicoterapia di Assisi, Italy.

This work aims to merge the psychodynamic approach with the recent neuroscientific discoveries in the development of intersubjectivity, with particular focus on the communicative-linguistic area. The empirical data consists of a longitudinal semi-structured observation of a child diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder. The data shows the intertwining of intersubjective processes and the development of the symbolic dimension in its different modes of expression, in this case, represented by speech and drawing. The interconnectedness of the three registers - phonetic, linguistic and graphic - enabled us to identify the advent of speech as an intentional production that signals the configuration of subjectivity in the relational domain.

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Pediconi, M., & Regini, L. (2021). Giving the Subject a Voice. Material Taken from the Longitudinal Observation of an Autistic Child. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 32(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2021.313

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