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This webinar will take place on 24 November 2021, 6pm-7pm GMT (7pm-8pm Central European Time). All registrants will receive livestream and recording access. Your unique recording access will be circulated 24 hours after the event and will available for 1 month to catch up.
The Freud Museum is proud to welcome Dr Leon S. Brenner, author of The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), who will discuss the themes of his recent book with Dr Henrik E. Lynggaard.
Dr. Brenner’s book comes to make a case for the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the understanding and treatment of autism. Refusing both the cognitive and identitarian approaches to the topic, Brenner rigorously theorizes autism as a unique mode of subjectivity and relation to language rather than a developmental disorder.
This talk will engage with some of the major talking points in the book. Among these will be the history of autism in psychoanalysis, the distinction of autism from psychosis, the unique autistic mode of access to language, the work with objects in the treatment of autism, and Brenner’s newly derived notion of the “autistic linguistic spectrum”. While Brenner’s book draws from the Freudian and Lacanian traditions of psychoanalysis, the talk will be held in a digestible and lucid language, extending to notions pertaining to the philosophy of the mind and the study of semiotics.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a psychoanalytic theorist and counselor from Berlin. His work focuses on psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. His book The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language was published with the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2020. He is currently a research fellow at the International Psychoanalytic University and the Ruhr-University of Bochum. Website: leonbrenner.com
Dr Henrik. E. Lynggaard (PhD) is a London based clinical psychologist and Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation. Henrik worked for more than 25 years in the NHS with people affected with learning disabilities and autism. He is the co-editor of the book Learning Disabilities: A Systemic Approach (Karnac, 2006).
Cover artwork by Joshua Mößmer
