Discovering Françoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development - Paperback

by Kathleen Saint-Onge (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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).