ABSTRACT
Francoise Dolto was an original and a solitary thinker. If her fame was hardly recognized among her colleagues, it certainly was by the general public. Her radio programmes, during which she engaged in a dialogue with the audience, were such a success that she had to interrupt her practice for a while, as this media popularity was not compatible with her private analytical work. The link between the psychic and the social that Dolto emphasized may remind some of the anti-psychiatry movements of the 1960s, led by psychiatrists such as Laing in the UK, Guattari in France, or Basaglia in Italy. Although Dolto’s sensitivity towards the social may have some family resemblance with that of anti-psychiatry, she did not hold a condemning position towards a malignant society. She defines the unconscious image of the body as a living synthesis of psychoanalyst's erogenous experiences, the incarnation of the memory of their relational life.
