ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 surveys some invested phonemes in Dolto’s public legacy as examples of the “phantasmatic transference” about which she theorizes. It draws attention to echoes of her archaic prehistory—including war—in social projects that disclose her “libidinal wealth,” such as her radio programs and Maisons vertes. Dolto privileges speaking in liberating affect, and this informs her constructs of “symboligenic castration,” “symbolic fruit,” the “witness,” individuation and triangulation—as well as her belief that a second language offers camouflage. Dolto’s position is that human dignity is a precocious sentiment that begins in “fetal sonority,” and that schools miss the genius of unconscious motivation and passive pulses. For Dolto, structuration is a translation of libidinal history via languaged filiation.
