This paper analyses the function of personal isolation and non-communication as major strategies of subjectivation, as proposed by Ogden and Winnicott who indicate that primitive isolation is a necessary condition for the psychic constitution of the infant. A fragment of a child´s clinical analysis demonstrates the importance of isolation and of the autistic-contiguous position for the analytic setting.
Key words:
Isolation; non-communication; autistic-contiguous position; analytic setting