ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents a wide range of psychoanalytic authors offering a Lacanian critique of the mainstream models of treatment and the strictly neuro-developmental conception currently professed as the scientific truth about autism. Despite their at-times significant divergences, Lacanian authors see autism first and foremost as a subjective position. The book also presents perspectives from authors of the Lacanian orientation whose work makes it patently clear that psychoanalysis does have a place in caring for autistic people, despite the socio-historical tensions of its complex history and the amount of media and public scrutiny it has faced in recent years, in France and elsewhere. Marie-Christine Laznik understood that the psychogenetic dynamic between babies who were to become autistic and their carers was in fact the very opposite of what certain earlier psychoanalytic authors may have claimed.
