Therapeutic interventions with child analysands are a ground for fantasy play and the exploration of potential modes of embodiment. The playing therapist must take care to not foreclose the desires of the analysand by imposing fixed notions of gender upon re-enacted scripts brought into the session. The changes send messages to the child and limit a full experience of their playground. This paper will be examining a specific account in the work of Allured (2006), Developing the Intersubjective Playground in the Treatment of Childhood Asperger’s Syndrome. In this clinical retelling of the scene, the child analysand’s request to be called Dorothy is rescripted to “that boy.” This paper is arranged in sections that are correlative articulations of the problem of re-scripting in the discourse of the psychoanalytic, which overlaps with philosophical points of inquiry in the phenomenological sense.
Sal Daña (Tue,) studied this question.