1st Edition

Rethinking Autism with Dolto Syllable Soup

By Kathleen Saint-Onge Copyright 2024
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Rethinking Autism with Dolto takes up a principal legacy of Françoise Dolto’s immense project—her conviction that autism is a regression to the archaic. Dolto theorizes that the infant in utero , deep in dreams, is receptive to the audition of “phonemes” during the pre-conscious “archaic stage” of psychosexual maturation. That dream-work on words—an idiosyncratic prehistory at the onset of... Read more

Preface

Introduction

 

PART ONE: ANALYSIS

Preamble for Part One

Chapter 1: Conservation

Preliminary Words

A.             Archaic

B.             Affect

C.             Anxiety

D.             Environment

Chapter 2: Circulation

Preliminary Words

A.             Third

B.             Passivity

C.             Regression

D.             Symbolization

Chapter 3: Presentification

Preliminary Words

A.             Phonemes

B.             Traces

C.             Witness

D.             Exteriorization

Summary for Part One

 

PART TWO: EVIDENCE

Preamble for Part Two

Chapter 4: Primary Defence

Preliminary Words

A.    Regression

B.    Anxiety

Chapter 5: Auditory Influence

Preliminary Words

A.    Phonemes

B.    Passivity

Chapter 6: Resonant Experience

Preliminary Words

A.    Exteriorization

B.    Witness

Summary for Part Two

 

PART THREE: PRACTICE

Preamble for Part Three

Chapter 7: Name—Awaiting Echoes

Preliminary Words

A.    Inscription

B.    Reverberations

Chapter 8: Library—(Re)finding Echoes

Preliminary Words

A.    Inscription

B.    Reverberations

Chapter 9: Transcription—Producing Echoes

Preliminary Words

A.    Inscription

B.    Reverberations

Chapter 10: Forest—Following Echoes

Preliminary Words

A.    Inscription

B.    Reverberations

Summary for Part Three

 

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

 

Biography

Kathleen Saint-Onge is a researcher and educator originally from Québec, Canada. Interrogating the unconscious, affective roots of language, she earned her master’s and PhD from York University, Toronto. Her previous publications include Discovering Françoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development (Routledge).