Free Download Rethinking Autism With Dolto: Syllable Soup
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032655143 | 270 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
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.
