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Revue of the London
Society of the New Lacanian School
Society of the New Lacanian School
Presents
‘Other Voices – A
Different Outlook on Autism’
Different Outlook on Autism’
A film by Ivan Ruiz
The October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester
St.
St.
London WC1N 3AL
Saturday 14th
December, 7-10pm
December, 7-10pm
The questionof autism in the UK has traditionally been situated within the clinical field
of learning difficulties. Autism has
thus been considered primarily as a developmental disorder, assessed in terms
of failure to achieve expected developmental milestones. Treatments offered then tend to be programmes
of re-education aimed at making up for these supposed deficiencies.
Clinical
approaches to autism inspired by the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan
emphasize instead the primacy of the speaking subject. Like all of us, the autistic subject is a
subject situated in the field of language.
Foregrounding the speaking subject allows Lacanian psychoanalysis to
consider autism as a subjective choice, as a particular way of being in the
world. The symptomatic presentation
associated with autism is then considered in terms of the functional elements
that the subject makes use of in order to manage his or her experience of
insertion in a world perceived as hostile, threatening or unmanageable.
approaches to autism inspired by the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan
emphasize instead the primacy of the speaking subject. Like all of us, the autistic subject is a
subject situated in the field of language.
Foregrounding the speaking subject allows Lacanian psychoanalysis to
consider autism as a subjective choice, as a particular way of being in the
world. The symptomatic presentation
associated with autism is then considered in terms of the functional elements
that the subject makes use of in order to manage his or her experience of
insertion in a world perceived as hostile, threatening or unmanageable.
This
approach can perhaps be briefly summed up in the notion of listening to autism. Rather than setting out to cure autism, to
master the problem of autism, perhaps we would do better to ask whether there
is something that we can all learn from autism, something that we struggle to
hear, but which concerns each one of us, whether as parents, as clinical
practitioners, or simply as human subjects each struggling to do the best we
can with the world we find ourselves in.
approach can perhaps be briefly summed up in the notion of listening to autism. Rather than setting out to cure autism, to
master the problem of autism, perhaps we would do better to ask whether there
is something that we can all learn from autism, something that we struggle to
hear, but which concerns each one of us, whether as parents, as clinical
practitioners, or simply as human subjects each struggling to do the best we
can with the world we find ourselves in.
Spanish
film maker Ivan Ruiz will be at the October Gallery in December to present his new
film Other Voices – A Different Outlook
on Autism. This is a film inspired
by personal experience of autism as well as by his engagement with Lacanian
psychoanalysis. In this film he has
taken on the challenge of listening to autism and of finding ways to convey
something about the message at stake to a wider audience. Ivan will be available after the screening to
answer your questions and to say something about what he discovered along the
way.
film maker Ivan Ruiz will be at the October Gallery in December to present his new
film Other Voices – A Different Outlook
on Autism. This is a film inspired
by personal experience of autism as well as by his engagement with Lacanian
psychoanalysis. In this film he has
taken on the challenge of listening to autism and of finding ways to convey
something about the message at stake to a wider audience. Ivan will be available after the screening to
answer your questions and to say something about what he discovered along the
way.
By
bringing to us the testimony of these other voices, this film thus addresses each
one of us with a unique challenge. Are
we ready to hear what it is that autism might be trying to say to us and learn
a little bit about what it might have to teach us?
bringing to us the testimony of these other voices, this film thus addresses each
one of us with a unique challenge. Are
we ready to hear what it is that autism might be trying to say to us and learn
a little bit about what it might have to teach us?
*
Entry Fee:
£10 at the door.
£10 at the door.
Places are
limited so please reserve your place in advance by contacting the Secretary of
the London Society of the New Lacanian School: [email protected]
limited so please reserve your place in advance by contacting the Secretary of
the London Society of the New Lacanian School: [email protected]
www.londonsociety-nls.org.uk
