ABSTRACT
Françoise Dolto worked with children and observed the joy that children displayed when speaking about the drawings they made. She interpreted those drawings not as represented phantasy to decipher the structure of the unconscious but as a representation of the image of the bodies of the children. To Dolto (1984), the capacity of children to speak about their drawings re-edits the psychic instances of the subject. In other words, the children’s image of the body is not the image of the drawings, but language creates the image of their body as they speak of it. To her, there is a saying encrypted in the body that waits to be deciphered. The image of the body is an image that waits to be spoken.
