Fernand Deligny and the different perceptive registers of the human

Abstract

In Empiricism and subjectivity (1953) Gilles Deleuze will state that the main problem of Hume's thought is to determine how the spirit becomes subject. We take this general distinction in Humean thought to, from there, make specific distinctions that place human animals in different sides in their life in language and culture and certain human animals whose ways of life do not conform to the templates of a majority and hegemonic pattern which has become, as a rule, the distinctive feature of the man-that-we-are. This question will be nourished in its unfolding of the criticism of language carried out by Fernand Deligny, especially from his experiences with the non-verbal autistic children with whom he lived in the Cévennes mountains, who will bring a new idea about what is human beyond any symbolic or subjective form.