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This comprehensive study explores Françoise Dolto's revolutionary theory that language acquisition begins in utero through precocious audition, revealing how unconscious affect and invested sound patterns shape early mental-emotional development and lifelong associative thinking.
Kathleen Saint-Onge demonstrates how generative echoes facilitate self-regulation and scaffold infant development. The book provides psychoanalysts with new theoretical frameworks connecting Freudian concepts of unconscious processes, dreamwork, and the transference to prenatal language acquisition. Readers will gain insights into how interrelational 'common objects' of familiar soundscapes become unconsciously securing, as affect bootstraps human learning and collaboration. Saint-Onge offers practical applications for understanding the role of the mother tongue in identity formation and the risks inherent in artificial versus natural language environments.
An illuminating read for psychoanalysts, researchers and theorists seeking to expand their understanding of early infant development and unconscious processes alike, this book will particularly appeal to Freudians interested in new applications of classical psychoanalytic theory, specialists in French psychoanalysis, and clinicians working with those experiencing language-related trauma and identity issues.
Contents
Introduction. The Essential Dolto: 'Archaic' Development & the Fetus as a Meaning-Making Being PART 1: IMPLICATIONS—GENERATIVE ECHOES & AFFECTIVE REGULATION 1. Sonar Syllables: From Familiar Phonemes to Invested Prosodies 2. Motherification: From Symbiotic Self to Associative Thinking 3. Auto-Materning: From Sign Relations to Joint Attention 4. Word Purées: From Translingual Transfers to Rooted Resilience 5. Languaged Means: From Precocious Inscription to Idiosyncratic Resonances PART 2: APPLICATIONS—MUTED ECHOES & AFFECTIVE DEFICITS 6. Untranslatable Anxiety: On Toxic Tongues, Misplaced Trust & the Silent Period 7. Identity Interference: On Costly Changes, Linguistic Insecurity & Language Attrition 8. Dehumanizing Involution: On Passive Defences, Language Endangerment & Non-Natural Languages Conclusion. Languaged in Utero: The Latent Register Regulating Affect in Interhuman Communication



