SaintOnge, Kathleen

Discovering Francoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development

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ISBN 13:
9780367144302
author:
SaintOnge, Kathleen
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Routledge
language:
English
Publication Year:
2019
Pages:
260
Dimensions:
23.5 x 15.9 centimetres (0.42 kg
Genre:
Nonfiction, Psychology, Mental Health,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£40.76

Description

Discovering Françoise Dolto Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development by Kathleen Saint-Onge is a psychobiographical study that delves into the life and theories of French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto. Dolto's work challenges assumptions about autism, autobiography, linguistics, literacy, pedagogy, and therapy, suggesting that infants unconsciously symbolize and that a continuous circulation of unconscious affects prevails in all language-based relations. Dolto believed that we are humanized through language, and that the words we use carry unconscious traces of our early histories of love, suffering, and desire. Her findings are supported by her own corpus, which blends personal and professional experiences, revealing echoes between Dolto's constructs about the child and her own challenging childhood. This book will be a valuable resource for psychoanalytic researchers and theorists interested in childhood, language, and identity, offering a unique insight into Dolto's theories and their relevance to contemporary understanding of human development.

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