Creation of the Self and Language Primitive Sensory Relations

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THE CREATION OF THE SELF
AND LANGUAGE

THE CREATION OF THE SELF
AND LANGUAGE
Primitive Sensory Relations
of the Child with the Outside World
David Rosenfeld
Foreword by
Maria Rhode
Karnac
First published in 2012 by
Karnac Books
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2012 by David Rosenfeld
The right of David Rosenfeld to be identified as the author of this work has been
asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act
1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written
permission of the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978–1–78049–135–6
Edited, designed, and produced by Communication Crafts
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This book is dedicated to the people
who encouraged me to write it:
my friends Carlos and Popi Abolsky
and my colleague Maria Rhode

Contents
About the author ix
Foreword xi
I
The autistic child
1 Introduction 3
2 Revisiting Freud from the standpoint
of his writings on aphasia 11
3 Some modern psychoanalytic theories
on autism 1 7
4 The child’s relationship with the Other
and with language: some concepts of
Merleau-Ponty and Henri Wallon 21
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viii contents
II
Benjamin
5 Testimonies 27
6 Transformation 35
References 55
Index 59
About the Author
David Rosenfeld was trained in Buenos Aires. He
lived and studied in Paris and London and also in the
United States. He is a Consultant Professor at Buenos
Aires University, Faculty of Medicine, in the Depart-
ment of Mental Health and Psychiatry; a Training
Analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Society;
and an Ex-Vice President of the International Psycho-
analytical Association (IPA).
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