Therapeutic writing in autism

This paper analyzes the two autobiographies written by Birger Sellin, an autistic author, which are portraits of his struggle to break the glacial autistic isolation by means of various strategies he developed and that allowed – to a certain extent – a treatment of invasive jouissance, but which also allowed him to keep his pseudopods extended towards others. The invention of Birgerian literature portrays the therapeutic effects of writing, highlighting its importance as a major tool for (self-) treatment in autism.

Psychoanalysis; autism; autobiography; jouissance