L’objet de la consultation
The Object of the Consultation
Author(s): Mathias GorogSubject(s): Psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalysis, Family and social welfare
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: autism; imago; mirror stage; object; psychiatry; psychoanalysis;
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on child psychiatry and proposes psychoanalysis as a useful approach in understanding the child as a patient. The author highlights the fact that even before being an object of diagnostic evaluation, the child is an object for his parents and other adults who take care of him/her. Psychiatric evaluation may thus be facilitated by the Lacanian “mirror stage” and by the notion of object “little a”. Both findings have the potential to illuminate the particular position of a child as being an object for others and can consequently help the medical doctor allow the object of consultation to represent itself as such; that is to say, as a subject. Such a representation is particularly difficult in the case of autism. The author thus proceeds to shows how autism has put the idea of the object of diagnostic evaluation to the test.
Journal: International Journal on Humanistic Ideology
- Issue Year: XII/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 87-94
- Page Count: 8
- Language: French