1st Edition
Discovering Françoise Dolto Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development
By Kathleen Saint-Onge
Copyright 2019
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and identity.
A friend of Jacques Lacan’s, 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.... Read more
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Subject
Chapter Two: Filiation
Chapter Three: Family
Chapter Four: Listening
Chapter Five: Reading
Chapter Six: Speaking
Chapter Seven: Writing
Chapter Eight: Phoneme
Chapter Nine: Passivity
Chapter Ten: Legacy
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kathleen Saint-Onge is a Canadian researcher interested in the role of language in identity-formation and the question, "What is a word?" Saint-Onge follows Freud as she taps Françoise Dolto’s notion of the phonème to explore the unconscious work of the transference (in texts) in psychical development. Saint-Onge is also the author of Bilingual Being: My Life as a Hyphen (2013).
"Though Dolto is well-known in France, she is relatively unheard of in English-speaking circles. Saint-Onge’s goal, when writing her book, was to make more accessible Dolto’s work and thought for an English-speaking audience.
After discovering Dolto herself, and exploring what she had to offer, Saint-Onge felt it was crucial to enable a greater awareness of the French psychoanalyst.
Dolto’s theorization fosters compassion for the individual, creating a potential foundation for educational efforts and psychological care tailored to meet the distinctive needs of each person involved. "
-Lukedm, York University
