L’autisme et la question de l’humain

Titre original en anglais : Autism and the Question of the Human

Bergenmar, J., Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., & Lönngren, A. S. (2015). Autism and the Question of the Human. Literature and Medicine, 33(1), 202-221. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2015.0009

Date de publication: 01/03/2015 Ajout dans AutiHub: 04/07/2026 Type: Article Langue de l’article: Anglais

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L’article examine comment des notions normatives des émotions et de l’interaction sont actives dans les constructions des catégories d’« humain » et d’« animal » dans différents discours sur l’autisme : scientifique et autobiographique. Dans le discours scientifique sur l’émotionnalité autistique, une perspective déficitaire de l’autisme est centrale. Le discours général sur le déficit affectif repose sur des notions discursives normatives d’« humanité » ou d’« émotionnalité humaine ». Ainsi, les neurotypiques sont produits comme de véritables « humains » et l’émotionnalité neurotypique comme une émotionnalité humaine « normale ». Cette normativité humaine est remise en question dans les textes autobiographiques suédois de Gunilla Gerland (née en 1963), Iris Johansson (née en 1945) et Immanuel Brändemo (né en 1980). Avec des auteurs américains d’autobiographies sur l’autisme, tels que Thinking in Pictures (1995) de Temple Grandin et Songs of the Gorilla Nation (2004) de Dawn Prince-Hughes, ils déstabilisent les catégories d’« humain » et d’« animal » en s’identifiant à des animaux non humains, en se décrivant comme tels, ou en se sentant disqualifiés en tant que véritables humains.

The article explores how normative notions of emotions and interaction are active in constructions of the categories of "human" and "animal" in different discourses about autism: scientific and autobiographical. In the scientific discourse of autistic emotionality, a deficit perspective of autism is central. The general affective deficit discourse relies on normative discursive notions of "humanity" or "human emotionality." Thus, neurotypicals are produced as real "humans" and neurotypical emotionality as "normal" human emotionality. This human normativity is challenged in the Swedish autobiographical texts by Gunilla Gerland (b. 1963), Iris Johansson (b. 1945) and Immanuel Brändemo (b. 1980). Along with American authors of autobiographies about autism, such as Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures (1995) and Dawn Prince-Hughes' Songs of the Gorilla Nation (2004) they destabilize the categories of "human" and "animal" by identifying with nonhuman animals, describing themselves as such, or feeling disqualified as real humans.

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