Sound processing and its impacts on the development of the subject: possible interfaces between the fields of biology and psychoanalysis

• Grant number: 17/13590-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2017
• End date: July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Ana Archangelo
• Grantee: Fábia Silva Vilas Bôas
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Since 1943, when the Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner has added "autistic affective contact disorder" as a new syndrome in childhood psychiatry, two fronts of knowledge seek to investigate and interpret autism. One of them focuses on the organic issues of the subject, such as neurotransmitter failures, while the other part understands autism as an effect of pathological relationships in early childhood with the help of psychoanalysis. The present project aims to analyze the possibilities and limits of integration of theses proposed in the different fields of knowledge about autism, using as a point of interface between the areas the study of sound processing and its impacts on the constitution of the subject. To this end, bibliographic research on sound processing in the field of biology and on echolalia (repetition of words or phrases spoken by another person) will be carried out in the psychoanalytic clinic of autism and its impact on the constitution of the subject in the context of psychoanalysis. The main bibliographic research platforms used in the study of organic sound processing will be: the Web of Science and the NCBI. And the authors studied, regarding the echolalia function, will be: Tustin, Winnicott, Safra, Jerusalinsky, Pires among others. (AU)