![]() ![]() Frankl’s perspective about autism can still be considered innovative today for other reasons. ![]() It is also proposed that the centrality of disturbances in affective language can be in agreement with a vision of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder that interferes with the current notions of intersubjectivity, intercorporeality and interaffectivity. While in neurotypical subjects the everyday language is an integration of affective and word language, autistic children register a break between them and, according to Frankl, this break is at the core of autism and can have a wide range of expression and tentatives of compensation. The manuscript deepens the distinction between ‘affective language’ and ‘word language’ that George Frankl had already developed in his previous papers in 19. This proposal is supported by the retrieval of an unpublished Frankl’s manuscript on autism which is here analysed and that deserves credit for anticipating some of the contemporary visions of autism. While Hans Asperger did not recognize the talent of his superior Georg Frankl, Leo Kanner immediately recognized his merits and acumen when Georg Frankl arrived at the Johns Hopkins as a refugee. Here we propose that the Jewish psychiatrist Georg Frankl, who worked with both Asperger and Kanner, had more than a marginal role in the early history of autism. The simultaneous description of autism by Asperger in Vienna and Kanner in Baltimore is usually considered a strange coincidence. ![]()
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