Allegorical Investigations: Autism, Applied Behavioral Analysis, and Medieval Poetry

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE LITERATURE AND MEDICINE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/lm.2023.a911445
Kate Crassons
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Abstract:This essay explores the connections between the modern autism intervention Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) and medieval personification allegory to show how literature powerfully enables the work of neurodiversity. Invoking the theory of the language game to investigate the clinical history of ABA, the essay puts the fourteenth-century poet William Langland in dialogue with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell. I argue that the approach to language emerging from this constellation of voices works as a precise tool for diagnosing the ethical liabilities of ABA. By highlighting the shared interest in a set of animated terms across different historical and disciplinary domains, we can see how allegorical writing becomes an essential resource for exposing how ABA travesties human need and emotion. Working against the ethos of this "therapeutic" intervention, Langland, Wittgenstein, and Cavell join with autistic writers in advancing a model of language development based on mutuality, reciprocity, and shared forms of life.
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寓言调查:自闭症、应用行为分析和中世纪诗歌
摘要:本文探讨了现代自闭症干预应用行为分析(ABA)与中世纪人格化寓言之间的联系,以展示文学如何有力地促进神经多样性的工作。本文援引语言游戏理论来研究ABA的临床历史,将14世纪诗人威廉·朗兰与路德维希·维特根斯坦和斯坦利·卡维尔进行了对话。我认为,从这些声音中出现的语言方法可以作为诊断ABA道德责任的精确工具。通过强调在不同历史和学科领域的一组动画术语中的共同兴趣,我们可以看到寓言写作如何成为揭示ABA如何歪曲人类需求和情感的重要资源。为了反对这种“治疗性”干预的精神,朗兰、维特根斯坦和卡维尔与自闭症作家一起,提出了一种基于相互、互惠和共享生活形式的语言发展模式。
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期刊介绍: Literature and Medicine is a journal devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding. Issues of illness, health, medical science, violence, and the body are examined through literary and cultural texts. Our readership includes scholars of literature, history, and critical theory, as well as health professionals.
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