The New York Freud-Lacan Analytic Group & New School Psychoanalytic Workshop invite you to a screening and discussion of:<\/p>\n
Other Voices \u2013 A Different Outlook on Autism<\/em><\/strong> Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 7pm<\/p>\n The New School \u2014 Klein Conference Room (A 510) Interview (Spanish) of Ivan Ruiz by Radio Lacan<\/a><\/p>\n The question of autism in this country has traditionally been situated within the broad field of learning difficulties.\u00a0 Autism has thus been considered primarily as a developmental disorder, assessed in terms of failure to achieve expected developmental milestones<\/strong>.\u00a0 The treatments available for autism then tend to be conceived in terms of programs of re-education aimed at making up for these supposed deficiencies.<\/p>\n Clinical approaches to autism inspired by the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, however, are indexed on the primacy of the subject involved.<\/p>\n Rather than highlighting developmental deficiencies measured against some abstract normative ideal, Lacanian psychoanalysis emphasizes the particularity of each individual, to the point of considering autism a subjective choice, as the child\u2019s particular way of being in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n Foregrounding the subject enables us to consider the symptomatic presentation associated with autism not merely in terms of pathological behaviors to be modified or preferably eliminated by re-education, but rather as functional elements that the child makes use of in order to manage his experience of insertion in a world perceived as hostile, threatening or unmanageable.<\/p>\n Rather than fighting to remove the symptoms of autism, Lacanian psychoanalysis aims to work with those symptoms and with the child who holds on to them while finding more adaptive ways of managing in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This of course requires spending sufficient time with the child and with his or her parents, giving them each a say in the process, before deciding what it is that we are supposed to be trying to cure.<\/p>\n This approach can perhaps be summed up in the notion of listening to autism.\u00a0 Rather than setting out to cure autism, to master the problem of autism, perhaps we would do better to ask whether there is something that we can all learn from autism, something that we struggle to hear, but which concerns each one of us, whether as parents, as clinical practitioners, or simply as human subjects each struggling to do the best we can with the world we find ourselves in.<\/p>\n Spanish filmmaker Ivan Ruiz will be at the New School this month to present his film Other Voices \u2013 A Different Outlook on Autism.<\/em>\u00a0 This is a film inspired by personal experience of autism as well as by his engagement with Lacanian psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n In this film he has taken on the challenge of listening to autism and of finding ways to convey something about the message at stake to a wider audience.\u00a0 Ivan will be available to answer your questions and to discuss what he discovered along the way.<\/p>\n By bringing to us the testimony of these other voices, this film thus presents us with a unique opportunity while addressing each one of us with a unique challenge.<\/p>\n Are we ready to hear what it is that autism might be trying to say to us and learn a little bit about what it might have to teach us?<\/p>\n About The Irish Circle of The Lacanian Orientation ICLO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis is based on the fact that the human subject is constituted as a speaking-subject<\/strong>. Simple and perhaps obvious as this statement may be, it nevertheless has a crucial ethical implication, namely, that listening to speech<\/strong> \u2013 and appropriately responding to it \u2013 are ways (and indeed perhaps the only ways) of treating the human being with dignity and with results that have effects on the mind and body that are not merely cosmetic, temporary or about adaptation to presumed norms or ideals.<\/strong><\/p>\n Considering the human subject from this point of view allows a different response to human suffering, one that resists the ubiquitous standardisation and homogeneity so often promoted in the face of such suffering.<\/p>\n Indeed and from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective there is an awareness that socio-cultural pressures actively shape, to a considerable extent, subjective suffering.<\/p>\n Lacanian psychoanalysis considers it of the utmost importance that the homogeneity and standardisation of contemporary suffering, which finds its expression in symptoms like depression, addiction, eating-disorders and self-harm, is not responded to in a protocolled and standardised kind of way but, precisely, on a case by case basis<\/strong>. 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\nA film by Ivan Ruiz and Silvia Cortes Xarrie<\/p>\n
\n66 West 12th St, New York, NY 10011<\/p>\n