« I would like to interest readers here in a woman's testimony about women. Under the general title of "Genital libido and its feminine destiny", I will try, stripping away the word destiny of its fatal resonances, magic or deterministic, to testify as a woman, a mother and a psychoanalyst practicing for more than twenty years the observational facts that I have been able to glean concerning sexuality in its development in girls, retaining here only the traits that I have encountered in the greatest number. »
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Françoise Dolto
Female Libido |
Françoise Dolto
Female Libido
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« Whoever we are, I believe that at birth, we are ten times smarter than at the age when we think we are, at twenty years old... We all have in us the intelligence, after it is distributed on multiple desires, interests. Finally, it's like a game of chess, everything is possible at the beginning, and then during the game, there are already not many pawns: you really have to watch the grain so that we go a little further and win the game, especially if the opponent in front is smart. »
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Françoise Dolto
The difficulty of living |
Françoise Dolto
The difficulty of living
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« It is through word, through creation, that human beings are able to overcome their sense of helplessness; he is doomed to suffering, because of the disparity between his desires, which are immeasurable, and the impossibility of satisfying them. There is therefore a fundamental and necessary suffering, which we will never avoid. »
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Françoise Dolto
The difficulty of living |
Françoise Dolto
The difficulty of living
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