CONCEPTELE LUI SERGE LEBOVICI: RESURSE PENTRU ASISTENȚA PSIHOLOGICĂ A FAMILIEI CU COPII CE SUFERĂ DE TULBURĂRI DE SPECTRU AUTIST

Abstract

This article focuses on analyzing the concepts of S. Lebovici, which refer to the complexity of the psychic conception of the idea of the child, starting from a psychoanalytic perspective that considers the conscious and unconscious dimensions of the psyche. S. Lebovici identifies several patterns of representation of the child, in this sense the French psychoanalyst describes 4 psychic constructs that refer to the image of the child in the minds of parents: the phantasmatic child, the imaginary child, the mythic child, the narcissistic child. These representations of the child are simultaneously present in the parent’s mind, and the finality, which is part of the normality, is the one in which the image of the real child predominates. When we refer to the birth of children with various mental or physical pathologies, the parents’ confrontation with the characteristics of the real child involves multiple forms of mental suffering. The results of this article present an analysis of the concepts of a phantasmatic child, an imaginary child, a mythic child, and a narcissistic child, emphasizing how these three psychological constructs could influence the family environment in which children with autism spectrum disorders grow up.