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Autism, language & subjectivity
Reading on autistic experience, language, signs, and singular ways of being. These texts work within a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework.
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How Books Taught Me to Be Human: Book Recommendations from an Autistic Reader
What can books teach us about being human? In this thoughtful interview, Olivia, an autistic reader, shares her top book recommendations and the insights they’ve given her about life, relationships, and self-reflection.
Read essayTalk at FLi (Dublin) – Autism and the Voice
I want to invite all of those reading this blog in Dublin to join us on Saturday, May 20th for an in-person events, with the possibility of attendance by Zoom for those who can’t make…
Read essayNew Publication: “Autistic Rims and Their Vicissitudes”
My latest paper entitled “Autistic Rims and Their Vicissitudes” has just been published in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. The paper is open-access, so it’s a good opportunity to get updated about my latest developments…
Read essayVideo Out: The Dermic Drive
I had a wonderful time giving a talk at Lacan in Scotland this month. Not only was it an opportunity to discuss some of my latest theoretical developments, I also very much enjoyed the questions…
Read essayPublished: The Autistic Mirror in the Real
My latest paper on the mirror stage in autism has just been published in the Theory & Psychology Journal. The mirror stage is one of Lacan’s most well-received metapsychological models in the English-speaking world. In…
Read essayLibrary Talk at IPU Berlin
On the 3rd of December, 8:00PM Berlin time, Dr. Peter Schneider and I will have an online discussion on contemporary approaches to autism at the International Psychoanalytic University’s (IPU). In this LIVE online event, we…
Read essayVideo Interview on The Autistic Subject
This week my interview with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair was published in her podcast Rendering Unconscious and on YouTube. In the interview I talk about segments of my new book on autism and about my personal…
Read essayThe Autistic Subject – my new book is out!
After a long production process my new book on the subject of autistic subjectivity is out. You can find it now in e-book version or hard-cover version on the publisher’s website. In the book I…
Read essayAutistic Writers
Here is a short talk on the singularity of autistic writing. It is quite clear that the approach of autistic writers to autism is very different than the approach of psychotic writers to psychosis. In…
Read essayAutistic Sameness: Lacan with Amanda Baggs
Leo Kanner, an American psychologist, was one of the first practitioners to differentiate what we know today as “autism” from the field of childhood psychosis. Assessing a variety of characteristics in the behaviour of his…
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