Abstract

This article aims to show how Fernand Deligny's thought and practices with autistic children, as well as his impact on Deleuze and Guattari, offer a paradigm of subjectivity that in turn rests upon an aesthetic and political account of what we can shape and share in common with autistic people. Well known by French educators and followers of alternative psychiatry, Fernand Deligny remains quite unknown in English-speaking parts of academia despite his influence on the work of Deleuze and Guattari. Nevertheless, Deligny's proposals are of great interest for renewing how we think about subjectivity.