Discovering Françoise Dolto

This psychobiographical study of the renowned French paediatrician and psychoanalyst, Françoise Dolto, introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and identity.

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).

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter One: Subject Chapter Two: Filiation Chapter Three: Family Chapter Four: Listening Chapter Five: Reading Chapter Six: Speaking Chapter Seven: Writing Chapter Eight: Phoneme Chapter Nine: Passivity Chapter Ten: Legacy Bibliography Index