title: [Post-autistic states: an image of "normality"? Metamorphosis and permanence of autistic strategies].
abstract: Ludovic is 14 and has spent ten years in a treatment center for autistic conditions. He is in a recovering process: he can talk, he goes to school and now can participate in group activities. But what defines "recovery" from an autistic state? The Rorschach and the TAT bring some interesting light to this question and help in understanding some contemporary concepts and theories as developed by D. Meltzer and F. Tustin among others: what of the "autistic strategies" described in well adapted personalities? (In her book Autistic barriers in neurotic patients F. Tustin speaks of "autistic enclave".) We will also see how our common cultural world can be treated as an "autistic object" and how "demantling"/isolation, followed by "remantling"/sticking, can confer an idiosyncratic configuration to the real world, thus magnificently protecting a necessary omnipotent fantasy, necessary because of the main defense mechanism which is the shifting of position. This mechanism confers to the "I" the statute of a traveller and leaves unworked through the primitive terrors which are concerned with the contact with the object as well as with the separation from it.
authors.affiliation: Université René-Descartes (Paris V).
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jeammet
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D012392:Rorschach Test; D012649:Self Concept; D012934:Social Isolation; D013803:Thematic Apperception Test
vernacular_title: Le post-autisme: une figure de la "normalité"? Métamorphoses et permanence de stratégies autistiques.