The paper examines the effects of a music workshop on autistic and psychotic children. A literature review is carried out around the topics of the voice, of musicality in the relationship established between children and others and on the establishment of subjectivity, especially around the notion of invocatory drive. Finally, through analysis of two cases from the workshop, a hypothesis is made about how the dimension of surprise may contribute to the treatment of autism and psychosis.
Voice; music; autism; psychoanalysis