The text presents some considerations on orality disorders in autism, from the point of view of psychoanalysis, intertwining issues of the constitution of the infant psyche and orality. To approach these theoretical and clinical issues two clinical cases are presented. The portrayed children present autistic functioning, characterized by oral primacy, and the enigmatic appears in the way orality is revealed, either in voracity or oral indiscrimination, installing the mouth exclusively in place of a, hole that encompasses everything and is never satisfied.
Childhood; autism; psychoanalysis; orality disorders