Discovering Françoise Dolto

Taylor & Francis

Discovering Franoise DoltoPsychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Saint-Onge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367144289, 978-0367144289\nSynopsis\nThis psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Franoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and identity.\n\nA friend of Jacques Lacans, Dolto believed that we are all humanized through language, and that the words we use carry unconscious traces of our early histories of love, suffering and desire. Suggesting that infants unconsciously symbolize and that a continuous circulation of unconscious affectsthe transferenceprevails in all language-based relations, her findings challenge assumptions about autism, autobiography, linguistics, literacy, pedagogy and therapy. \n\nDoltos own corpusa rich archive blending the personal and professionaldemonstrat.