« the word "read" is a word that, for some children, awakens something totally taboo: it is the marital bed of the parents. At the time when the child is developing his prohibition of incest, the verb of the "bed" that appears to them to be the word "read" makes this word banned, and the activities surrounding reading are something that puts him in a very great trouble. Of course, schoolteachers don't know this and it has to be unconscious. It is the role of the psychoanalyst to discover this with the child, on the occasion of drawings »
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Françoise Dolto
(Source unknown) |
Françoise Dolto
(Source unknown)
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« Reading the gospels . . . first produces a shock in my subjectivity, and then, in contact with these texts, I discover that Jesus teaches desire and leads to it. I discover that these texts of two thousand years are not at odds with the unconscious of men today. »
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Françoise Dolto
The Gospel at risk of psychoanalysis, Volume 1 |
Françoise Dolto
The Gospel at risk of psychoanalysis, Volume 1
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« Our role as psychoanalysts is not to remain in our ivory tower, but to make the whole population, and especially the adults responsible for the training of young people, understand the help that psychoanalysis can provide for children in great intellectual, characteristic and social difficulties. »
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Françoise Dolto
The difficulty of living |
Françoise Dolto
The difficulty of living
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