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On The Subject Of Autism: Lacan, First-Person Writing, And Research, Adam Neil Poulin
On The Subject Of Autism: Lacan, First-Person Writing, And Research, Adam Neil Poulin
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
In his essay, Don’t Mourn for Us, Jim Sinclair describes autism as a “way of being.” He maintains there is “no normal child hidden behind the autism” and that “it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion, and encounter, every aspect of existence.” In an attempt to appreciate the depth of Sinclair’s statements, this thesis approaches autism as a “way of being” through the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. By applying Lacan’s conceptual framework to first-person writing and scientific research, I lay an interdisciplinary foundation for the case I make. Although this project requires significant conceptual scaffolding across different …