Bonelli, Frank

From the Primitive Sphere to Triangular Space - 2013.


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"The author presents extracts of the psychoanalytical treatments of two children with autism to illustrate how the emergence of representations related to separation consciousness, perceived as the encounter of a persecutory third object, creates existential anxieties and threatens the very formation of ""skin-containment."" The author also suggests that a splitting mechanism operates in autism, which separates