A música e o espelho sonoro na clínica do autismo

Abstract

This work has started with the motivation to understand the sound and psychic condition of the voice In the constitution of the subject, as well as the pathological failure of this structure in autism. We started with the understanding that the subject is the effect of the encounter between the meaningless sense of the real and the meaning of the symbolic/imaginary. The mother figure, by the means of the sound mirror, welcomes what happens in the child s body and assigns corresponding language significants. This mediation is loaded with musical ingredients. The mother seeks to facilitate and promote the invocation by the \"baby talk\". The failure in the circuit of invocation in autistic children was also approached, preventing the constitution of the psychic function of the voice. Thinking the sound-musical context as an operator phenomenon, essencial to subjectivity, made it possible to consider the mediator potencial of music included in treatment. This field research involved to children with constitucional deadlocks, and their motores, in clinical care, whose therapeutic setting made use of sound and musical resources. We intended an approximation of the way the voice, as a lost object, and the word, associate. Furthermore, the possibility of causing a modification of the place of the subject in the circuit of invocation, became a matter from the musical intervention. It is possível to understand that the positioning of the subject is stated in tis musicality: what in it stands says of its way of functioning and of its work of appeasement of the suffering and the trauma of insertion in the field of language. Music nostalgically rescues the origins of the subject in the real and, at the same time, proposes a go further, towards the word. The impact of the loss of juissance, eased through music, shows it as a facilitator of lashing between real and symbolic. The subject modulaton refers to the modulation of the subject in its estruture and in tis position from the intervention with the musical. The modulation of the invocatory drive in the process of structuring of the subject was possible when we took the music as an essential tool of clinical work.