ON IDENTIFICATIONS IN AUTISM

Identifications are the most original form of emotional attachment, even before a particular object is formed.Ferbain (1940) states that a child's development allows them to internalize not only a person or object, but as they progress through life, internalization also extends to complete relationships, which are characterized in withdrawal as socio--emotional reciprocity and an understanding of impoverished relationships in autism.The aim of this work is to consider the existence of an identification in the autistic position, in view of their cultural disidentification and their impaired emotional reciprocity and understanding of relationships.The case study follows the subject R.A. and his account of possible secondary identification as a partial trait based on the hat given to him by his uncle.The methodology is based on the quaternary structure of psychoanalysis: free association, dimensioning and re-dimensioning the demand, transference and counter-transference and the healing process.Thus, the method in psychoanalysis essentially corresponds to three articulated elements that establish a psychoanalytic psychopathology that is a remnant of Freud's accurate and sophisticated clinical approach to hysterics and, consequently, his investigation into the production of hysterical symptoms: experience, investigation and interpretation.For Freud, scientific questions have always been based on experience and not on the authority and assumption of theories.