Introduction. The Essential Dolto: ‘Archaic’ Development & the Fetus as a Meaning-Making Being PART 1: IMPLICATIONS—GENERATIVE ECHOES & AFFECTIVE REGULATION 1. Sonar Syllables: From Familiar Phonemes to Invested Prosodies 2. Motherification: From Symbiotic Self to Associative Thinking 3. Auto-Materning: From Sign Relations to Joint Attention 4. Word Purées: From Translingual Transfers to Rooted Resilience 5. Languaged Means: From Precocious Inscription to Idiosyncratic Resonances PART 2: APPLICATIONS—MUTED ECHOES & AFFECTIVE DEFICITS 6. Untranslatable Anxiety: On Toxic Tongues, Misplaced Trust & the Silent Period 7. Identity Interference: On Costly Changes, Linguistic Insecurity & Language Attrition 8. Dehumanizing Involution: On Passive Defences, Language Endangerment & Non-Natural Languages Conclusion. Languaged in Utero: The Latent Register Regulating Affect in Interhuman Communication
Biography
Kathleen Saint-Onge is a researcher and educator based in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Rethinking Autism with Dolto: Syllable Soup (2024) and Discovering Françoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development (2019).
