Pot d'argile - « autisme »
Clay Pot - « autism ».

Increasingly blinded by his fragmented and enclosed look, trained by a symptomatic rationality, man risks forever burying the very foundations of his otherness.

However, in order to be able to help, to listen, to « care of », one must be carried by a constantly revitalized Word.

For many, the first Encounter with the subject said « autistic » is marked by feelings of disturbing strangeness.

Inevitably, one is always destabilized by everything that comes to question our normative thought and unmask the structural and cultural flaws of our supposed « normality ».

However, during his re-emergence, this enigmatic being can help us weave the threads of our thoughts. It thus sheds light us on the burial of the fragments that bear witness to our Globality.

The discovery of the « origin » of his « autism » allows us to design a Mediation that is made reliable ; but its future also and above all depends on our ability to pacify the traces of the effects of what has sidered him.

Once authentically named, it manages to reveal itself. Provided that our availability remains essentially mental, this closeness leads him to take firm steps of reciprocity.

Nourished by the reverie of another temporality, our common clay pot ends up becoming familiar again.

This is what Mayama, through the singular quest for her Africanness, will relate us.

Key notions: autism, infantile psychoses, psychic sideration, fragments, globality, links of meaning, symbolons, daydreaming, intersubjectivity, interculturality, resourced speech, pacifying signifiers, pacification, therapeutic mediation, paddling pool.

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Pot d'argile