O humano e a linguagem: ressonâncias da Psicanálise na rede de Fernand Deligny com crianças e jovens ditos autistas

Abstract

The present work comes from the interest in the investigations of Fernand Deligny (1913- 1996) around the notions of human and language, elaborated during his experience with children and young people said to be autistic in the network in Cévennes (1968-1996), in the South of France. Our paper aims to explore the resonances of psychoanalysis in his writing around what he called modes of being outside language - which is linked to his conceptions about the innate, the symbolic and the real, and also to his experience of living with so-called autistic people - as well as in their influence on the creation of this welcoming place. In order to do so, we seek to identify in Deligny’s trajectory the moments in which he meets psychoanalytic ideas and the way in which he takes a stand in relation to them, to then highlight the echoes that these encounters will leave in his writings, supported by permanent dialogue with several psychoanalysts about their practice on the network. We examined some of his texts in which psychoanalysis appears, dating from the period 1976- 1982, with the help of consulting his correspondence, as well as writings of other researchers about the author, to situate his thinking and his relationship to the psychoanalytic field.

Keywords: Fernand Deligny. Psychoanalysis. Autism. Human. Language.