Metapsychological Study on Autism and the Object Voice
Keywords: autism, voice, elision.
This research aims to describe the psychic operator in autism considering it a fourth structure, or even as a functioning apart from the three existing structures: neurosis, psychosis and perversion. For this, I resort to the theoretical foundations of Marie-Christine Laznik, who proposes elision as a defense mechanism in autism, a process that occurs in a register prior to the unconscious and, therefore, would prevent significant articulation. If we consider the voice as the first object to mark the psychic apparatus, then these marks would occur in the register of perceptual signals, which allows us to raise the hypothesis of a relationship between voice and elision as psychic operators in autism. In this sense, this work contributes to the clinical distinction between autism and psychosis.