{"product_id":"9781032655147","title":"Rethinking Autism with Dolto : Syllable Soup by Kathleen Saint-Onge","description":"Rethinking Autism with Dolto takes up a principal legacy of Fran?oise 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.   Rethinking Autism with Dolto considers unconscious processes as inherently reparative, heralding the responsibility education holds for human health, and supports a rethinking of autism that presumes competence. Readers are invited to new conversations in psychoanalysis, child development, education and linguistics through an exploration of the unconscious concomitants of first language acquisition.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296059830645,"sku":"9781032655147","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032655147.jpg?v=1762770084","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781032655147","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}