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Rethinking Autism with Dolto: Syllable Soup

Rethinking Autism with Dolto: Syllable Soup

Saint-Onge, Kathleen

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Medical ReferenceGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032655143
ISBN13: 9781032655147
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 4 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Rethinking Autism with Dolto takes up a principal legacy of Françoise Dolto's immense project--her conviction that autism is a regression to the archaic.

Dolto theorizes that the infant in utero, deep in dreams, is receptive to the audition of phonemes during the pre-conscious archaic stage of psychosexual maturation. That dream-work on words--an idiosyncratic prehistory at the onset of mental and emotional life--secures the unconscious circulation of affect and the ontogeny of thought long prior to speech, seeding associative thinking and facilitating self-regulation. Kathleen Saint-Onge uses the written work of four nonverbal autistic authors in seeking corroboration for Dolto's formulations, finding thoughtful self-reflections that relate the experience of living in silence with relentless anxiety while relying on regression as a defence. Dolto's unprecedented insights into the infant's earliest learning carry formidable implications for autism interventions, and for primary language and literacy. At issue is an enduring susceptibility to archaic echoes--the haphazard, securing return of pre-invested phonemes--in communicative exchanges, including reading and writing.

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