..., race, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature. Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this article attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children. The author...

... this . . .”). With those words, the speaking Self moves from attribution to avowal. ( Moran 122 ) I return to this situation below. 7 We might mention a proverbial joke. A mother asks: “Why do we have so many autism cases in Los Angeles?” The neighbor replies: “Because we have the highest rate of child...

... was a comedy of errors that one Bulgarian femi- nist described as a dialogue of “silences and parodies” (Muharska), which is another way to speak of autism and convertibility. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia,9...

... gay adoption as a possible source of psychosis for the adopted children, Jacques-Alain Miller’s alleged opposition to male homo- sexual marriage on account of its likely infidelity, and others’ suggestion that autism can...

... sinking into the autism of the the rebuilding is taking place. In closure” (“The Ends” 135). a similar way, in order to avoid...

... and autism. Whether male or female, the bodybuilder comes to the contest hoping to have conferred upon him or her the status of “total package,” proof that s/he has achieved thingification, however fleeting, in the eyes of the other...

... of sensual passion and delight. Embodiment itself becomes the fundamental crime; its antidote, a strict modulation of physico-emotional expression, a mass cultivation of frozen stances, a universal autism of the body, a physiological turning of the screw ofindividualization and atomization. Such a denial...

..., the traits or differences of the symbolic, and the light which seems to reflect off them in the otherwise impenetrable fog of the real as twilight zone. The imaginary is "(k)not-all," the best and worst thing ofits kind. If we are to avoid autism, we cannot do without its iconic and indexical illusions...

.... Clearly resonance in Irigaray’s view is doubly ill suited for chal- lenging philosophy’s autism. It cannot be the “ruse not belonging to rea- son” that would “prevent philosophy from still speaking of itself” (Derrida, Tympanum xii...