Discovering Françoise Dolto

Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development

Kathleen Saint-Onge

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Routledge
31 May 2019

Psycholinguistics; Literature: history & criticism; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Child & developmental psychology; Psychotherapy

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. Suggesting that infants unconsciously symbolize and that a continuous circulation of unconscious affects—the transference—prevails in all language-based relations, her findings challenge assumptions about autism, autobiography, linguistics, literacy, pedagogy and therapy.

Dolto’s own corpus—a rich archive blending the personal and professional—demonstrates this, with echoes between Dolto’s constructs about the child and her own challenging childhood. This fascinating book will not only introduce the work of Françoise Dolto to many readers, but will be a valuable resource for all psychoanalytic researchers and theorists interested in childhood, language and identity.

By: Kathleen Saint-Onge
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 402g
ISBN: 9780367144302
ISBN 10: 0367144301
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 31 May 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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)."