[Infantile autism, psychoanalytic research and scientific status]

After emphasizing the very modern aspect of psychoanalytic epistemology, the author shows how psychoanalytical research applied to the issue of infantile autism concentrates the maximum of difficulties and is therefore vulnerable to critics from the "hard" sciences. Some tentative answers are proposed in reference to the narrative sciences. The author then suggests various tracks for the psychoanalytical research in the field of infantile autism.