This article discusses the beginning of an analytical relationship with autistic children, based on Maria’s analysis, a three years old autistic child. The clinic case of Maria has became important as an object of study, for had given rise to an argue about the theoretical-clinic principles that make a psychoanalyst to find meaning on autistic child’s actions, even when she doesn’t talk and play, and to interpret them, from the beginning of an analytical relationship, as an effort to create the transferential relationship.
With Maria, the analyst, in the beginning of the treatment, put the meanings and the interpretations way and started to live the phenomenal nature of the child’s “grunts” and “gestures”. Acting like that, another way was opened to create an analytical relationship with Maria: the several tones and rhythms of her “grunts”, the buzz of her “gestures”, the shapes and movements of her body and the rhythm of her breathing, were held by the analyst in her own body, however, without the classical interpretation of these clinical material.
Psychoanalysis; autism; meaning; interpretations