ABSTRACT
Helene and Alexandre Dubinsky began by referring to the profound influence which the work of Genevieve Haag has exerted on the psychoanalytic treatment of autistic children, on infant observation, and, more generally, on the understanding of primitive anxieties in children and adults who are not on the autistic spectrum. Unlike autistic stereotypies, they occur in the context of relationships and are accompanied by phenomena of a musical order. After this, or, rather, following on from this, children show a new daring in moving through space. In autistic conditions, experiences of liquefaction or of a related lack of muscular tone seem to be compensated for, more or less in reflex fashion, by bodily rigidity. For this adolescent, it seems to be an internal matter and more complex, probably a type of depression following on from the terrible attacks that she describes in her dreams and which may reawaken a primary depression.
