Joly, Fabien <br/><br/>
The psychic reanimation of cognitive functions 

 -  2015.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The psychotherapeutic follow-up of a young man with Asperger syndrome by a psychoanalyst displays both the numerous and very specific peculiarities of the way people with Asperger’s function, and the considerable reorganizations acquired at the end of the psychotherapeutic process. One infers from that a complex view on the development of the “functioning of the functions” as well as on the psychopathology of that syndrome. The author launches a militant defense of the specific interest of the clinical and theoretical psychoanalytic understanding of autism, as much as an insisting plea for “recommending” the indication of psychotherapeutic and/or psychoanalytical support in the treatment of people with Asperger syndrome, who always suffer from great psychic, narcissistic, and relational pain, but even worse—and this is the original subject of this article—from deficits of cognitive functions so often hindered.