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The [[word]] was introduced into the [[psychiatric]] [[vocabulary]] by Eugen Bleuler in 1911 in his description of schizophrenia. However, a hint of it could be detected as early as 1907 in the correspondence between [[Freud]] and [[Jung]]: "Bleuler still misses a clear definition of [[autoerotism]] and its specifically [[psychological]] effects. He has, however, accepted the [[concept]] for his Dem[entia] pr[aecox] contribution to Aschaffenburg's Handbook. He doesn't [[want]] to say autoerotism (for reasons we all [[know]]), but prefers 'autism' or 'ipsism"' (Freud and Jung, p. 44-45).
Bleuler, who very early on took an interest in Freud's [[work]], did not accept his [[libido]] [[theory]], and this was the [[reason]] for the amputation that produced the word autism from autoerotism: to distance it from the [[libidinal]] significations of the latter term, while keeping the former's Greek root, auto, [[meaning]] "[[self]]." For Bleuler, the autism of schizophrenia is a shutting-in of the [[subject]] in an impenetrable, incommunicable world, closed in on itself, made up of unorganized delusional elements to which all [[The Subject|the subject]]'s disposable [[mental]] energy is attached.
In 1943, Leo Kanner adopted the term to describe "early [[infantile]] autism," a syndrome associated with problems of communication and [[social]] [[behavior]], as well as serious [[developmental]] disturbances of mental functioning, most notably of [[imagination]]
