La visualisation : un autre mode de traitement de l’Objet pulsionnel voix dans l’autisme

Objectives

This work aims to examine the subjective relationship, for autistic people, to the voice and to the other. More specifically, it questions the possibility of expression of the object-voice in autism, mainly through dance.

Method

In addition to oral expression and voicing, the authors propose a third mode of processing the voice through visualization. This hypothesis was tested through a therapeutic dance project with an autistic child within an institutional setting.

Results

Over the course of the sessions, by exploring directed and addressed movements, this project allowed for the sketching out of a common gestural grammar leading to expression through dance.

Discussion

By making the hypothesis that the invoking drive can be transposed in movement through a passage from the mouth-ear drive loop to the body-eye loop, the analysis of the different clinical extracts presented and the identification of the invoking drive loop allow us to witness a visualization of the voice.

Conclusion

Mediation through dance or movement for the autistic person could facilitate the establishment of interpersonal relationships and could make possible the expression of the libidinal voice.