The Vulnerable Skin: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Autism

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Date(s) - 04/10/2024
09:00 - 15:30

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Lyhty (Philologica building)

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October 4th, 2024
Lyhty (Philologica building)
Seminaarinkatu 15
University of Jyväskylä

 

This workshop discusses different takes on autistic experience within the psychoanalytic tradition and focuses in particular on the relation between the skin and the self. How is the sense of the skin and the felt surfaces of the self altered in autism? And how do such alterations affect more well-known autistic features, including differences in perceptual, intersubjective, and linguistic experience? Addressing such questions through the works of thinkers including Klein, Bion, Lacan, Tustin, and Ogden, the workshop aims to provide a diversity of psychoanalytic perspectives on autism focusing on the centrality of tactile experience and the sensations of the skin.

Note: Participation is in-person only

The event is free and open to all but registration is required. For more information, please contact Sofie Boldsen: sofie.s.boldsen@jyu.fi.

Program

09.00-09.15 Opening words

09.15-10.45

Maria Rhode (London): “Masculine and feminine aspects of the skin-container”

Comment and general discussion: Joona Taipale

10:45-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:45 Leon Brenner (Berlin): “Skin Punctuations in Autism”
Comment and general discussion: Sofie Boldsen

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Sofie Boldsen (Jyväskylä): “Autism and the tactile sense of self and other”
Comment and general discussion: Eeva Pihlaja

15:30 Closing words

The workshop is co-organized by Sofie Boldsen and Joona Taipale, and funded by the Academy of Finland project “Asymmetric Encounters: Intersubjectivity and the Sense of Boundaries”.

Registration:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QRWWhDof_O–kjy-QlR2R_8p5ZrO9eGIK4LAkFq-j3M/viewform?edit_requested=true