| dc.description.abstract | In this research, we intend to treat autism in a theoretical, clinical and, also, a
discursive perspective. We understand it as a discursive event, considering the
progresses since the construction of the disorder category assumed by Child
Psychiatry M.D. in the 1940’s, an age when childhood mental disorder and other
studies related to childhood, arisen and marked all the subsequent course of this
theoretical universe. Our research’s object is the autism’s diagnosis, appointments
and re-appointments in science, turning the designation process back to the subject
with conductions that contrasts the social balance. Further, we first approach the
subject, deliberated as abnormal, and the forms of specifying and positioning him.
We will do this course, with the purpose of discussing what has been created until we
reach the present historical moment: the nosographic name of autism. Therefore, we
will turn back the path that science has followed until the current days, with its
classificatory conceptions about autism, always prioritizing the path followed by the
theoretical constructions and their effects inside medical, psychoanalytic and
philosophical knowledge, as, also, autistic child´s itself. And yet, into the
(un)knowledge non-experts person, according to legal supplies and their effects on
subjects who experience this condition, whether autistics themselves, whether the
people whom they live: parents, brethren, educators, professionals. This course aims
to confirming autism as a discursive event, as an example, proposed by Foucault.
Our intention with such retrieval, considering the positions occupied by this divergent
subject, is to discuss the historical, social and political issues that shaped the
scenarios and the places by him occupied. | |
