ABSTRACT
One main feature of autism is the absence of any sense of place and time. An autistic child has no sense of what is between two objects—whether these objects are feelings or things—or of what must be crossed in order to get to know them. An autistic adolescent patient used, for instance, to begin every sentence he uttered with the last part of my previous sentence, creating an identical sentence in an inverse order. The inverse use of the psychic organ point is actually a similar phenomenon, in which what was meant to be the framing structure refuses to be erased, to fade and take the status of background. The function of the psychic organ point in autistic states is reminiscent of obsessive-compulsive thinking: a repetition that is void of emotional meaning and which has become a mechanical mode of surviving.
