Phenomenological and transversal dialogues about Autism in the contemporary

Abstract

This essay proposes a discussion with a phenomenological bias that permeates some ideas of its more traditional authors (Heidegger, 2021; Husserl, 2020) reaching contemporary authors such as Byung-Chul Han and Slavoj Žižek who, despite not proclaiming themselves to be thinkers of phenomenology, have a dense phenomenological base in their thoughts, especially in line with Heidegger's thinking. At first, our methodological course presents the current nosological classification in order to situate autism as a disorder. In the second moment, we try to expose ideas of classical phenomenology with Husserl and Heidegger in order to approach an existential conception of autism, in view of the observation of how dasein with autism is guided by its everyday semantics. Finally, we contextualize autism in the contemporary thinking of authors Slavoj Žižek and Byung Chul, who provide us with an ideal framework to situate autism in a reality of expulsion of the other, shaped by objective violence. We conclude that much still needs to be done in order to investigate autism with alternative methodologies to its usual understanding in positivist semantics.