Negative identity is the part of ourselves that crystallises what our parents reject, the negativity that we perceived in them that then becomes a compass for us.
I think what's missing here, to express it, is Lacan's single trait (trait unaire), through which the child inscribes itself by introducing itself with the set - similar to how humanity does with the notch. And isn't it much more significant how the category models of diseases specifically give space to the trait (that is, the form) of the notch? By this, I mean that the child, at least in the assumption of a subject, does not represent itself for itself or other subjects, but precisely as a signifier in relation to other signifiers. It takes a place where it wants to see itself represented in this illness, and desire is precisely the desire of the Other, which means that the needs and wishes are anticipated based on the clinical picture. In this sense, the illness shows us not only what the child is suffering from, but also what it should desire, what it should claim, and how the child must do it.
As ever this is a very interesting piece. For me though I am yet to find a genuinely non pathologising psychoanalytic understanding for autism. Rather than just being a new label for an old delinquency, the emerging science around neurodivergent brains is filling this space for me. But this is a slow process.
This also helps explain why more young people are drifting to the far right in the US -- so many politicians, media and entertainment figures, teachers etc have made criticism of Trump central to their discourse this last decade. Fascination is a powerful force...
I think what's missing here, to express it, is Lacan's single trait (trait unaire), through which the child inscribes itself by introducing itself with the set - similar to how humanity does with the notch. And isn't it much more significant how the category models of diseases specifically give space to the trait (that is, the form) of the notch? By this, I mean that the child, at least in the assumption of a subject, does not represent itself for itself or other subjects, but precisely as a signifier in relation to other signifiers. It takes a place where it wants to see itself represented in this illness, and desire is precisely the desire of the Other, which means that the needs and wishes are anticipated based on the clinical picture. In this sense, the illness shows us not only what the child is suffering from, but also what it should desire, what it should claim, and how the child must do it.
Thank you for your text.
As ever this is a very interesting piece. For me though I am yet to find a genuinely non pathologising psychoanalytic understanding for autism. Rather than just being a new label for an old delinquency, the emerging science around neurodivergent brains is filling this space for me. But this is a slow process.
This also helps explain why more young people are drifting to the far right in the US -- so many politicians, media and entertainment figures, teachers etc have made criticism of Trump central to their discourse this last decade. Fascination is a powerful force...