The line of errancy of autism and the method-thinking of Fernand Deligny: where the language is absent, what is there?

• Grant number: 14/15206-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: December 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Miranda da Cruz
• Grantee: Caroline Paola Cots
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this study is to map the interactions of an autistic child, whose pseudonym adopted here is Luiza. This mapping is done according to the Deligny method (1968-1977). We will observe Luiza in her daily actions and we will draw a line of "errancy" of her interactions, in other words, what would escape from us if we were only attentive to the patterns of language and interaction that are known and more noticeable and delineable. The question that will lead these analyzes is: how does Luiza produce senses and meanings in her interactions with or without verbal language? We will explore that line or where there is a type or possibilities of interaction, as proposed by Deligny, reflecting questions related to the human knowledge, the social interaction, the language in autism and we will expand our reflection to the possible ways of thinking the existence. With this research, we can study and deepen the thought and the investigation methods and work of Fernand Deligny (1913-1996), also inventing new forms of looking and understanding autism. (AU)