ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes structural solutions that draw on discussions and results in the field of language. The topological structure of the child's unconscious is what it inherits from the world of the adults and, in the case of autism, it is this underlying structure that we intend to find. The strongest spatial structure that can be forced upon any set is one that comes from having all of its subsets open. Alternatively, the opposite way of going about would be to produce the weakest spatial structure: the way to produce this smallest topology is to have no proper subset open at all. The autistic child has problems of relating to others; has problems of language; and has problems in the structuring of space, and of time. The autistic child is caught in the regions of the spaces that 'adjoin' the location of the indiscrete space.
