TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brenner, Leon S.
T1  - The autistic mirror in the real
BT  - Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage
JF  - Theory & psychology
N2  - The mirror stage is one of Jacques Lacan's most well-received metapsychological models in the English-speaking world. In its many renditions Lacan elucidates the different forms of identification that lead to the construction of the Freudian ego. This article utilizes Lacan's mirror stage to provide a novel perspective on autistic embodiment. It develops an integrative model that accounts for the progression of four distinct forms of autistic identification in the mirror stage; these forms provide the basis for the development of four different clinical trajectories in the treatment of autism. This model is posed as an alternative to the clinical and diagnostic framework associated with the autistic spectrum disorder.
KW  - autism
KW  - Lacan
KW  - mirror stage
KW  - psychoanalysis
KW  - theory
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211034569
SN  - 0959-3543
SN  - 1461-7447
VL  - 31
IS  - 6
SP  - 950
EP  - 972
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -