Discovering Françoise Dolto

Discovering Françoise Dolto
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780429627873
ISBN-13 : 0429627874
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Book Synopsis Discovering Françoise Dolto by : Kathleen Saint-Onge

Download or read book Discovering Françoise Dolto written by Kathleen Saint-Onge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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