First time that this book will appear in English. Dolto is a popular figure in child psychoanalysis, and of interest to Lacanians because of her close friendship with Lacan. Dolto's medical training and extensive work in paediatrics gave her a perhaps unique view of the links between the individual's physical and psychic development, and her writings are of particular interest in the field of psychosomatics and the psycho-social development of children.

This book is Francoise Dolto s 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. Francoise Dolto s aim was to sensitize people to the unconscious dimensions of many problems in children. She demonstrates here, through sixteen case studies, how often children s difficulties at school and at home be they behavioral or due to impaired learning abilities are the expression of psychological issues linked with their developing sexuality and castration anxiety, and result in physical symptoms such as enuresis and encopresis.Dolto points out that the awareness of the self and self-responsibility often develops for young people in families in which the parents do not know how to listen or even more importantly cannot be listened to with trust. There is also a summary of Freud s theories of the different stages of the evolution of the drives, as well as the central developmental role played by the castration complex, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus Complex."

First time that this book will appear in English. Dolto is a popular figure in child psychoanalysis, and of interest to Lacanians because of her close friendship with Lacan. Dolto's medical training and extensive work in paediatrics gave her a perhaps unique view of the links between the individual's physical and psychic development, and her writings are of particular interest in the field of psychosomatics and the psycho-social development of children.

The privileged link of psychoanalysis to spoken language does not necessarily facilitate communication among analysts and psychotherapists of different mother tongues. The Journal of European Psychoanalysis published since 1995 has long sought to overcome these linguistic barriers. Traditionally, it has introduced English readers to important European authors, as well as to authors of Latin American countries whose paradigms are close to European "styles." Freed of the editorial and political constraints that often govern the official organs of schools and institutions, the Journal of European Psychoanalysis has, for many years, regularly featured conversations with some of the most prominent and brilliant figures in contemporary psychoanalysis: highlighting debates and trends within psychoanalysis and related fields while remaining ever-sensitive to the practical, ethical, and theoretical implications of clinical practice. In Freud's Tracks collects some of the most engaging and provocative of these conversations, thus tracing a recent history of psychoanalysis in Europe while also evidencing the discipline's vital and vibrant connections with the fields of politics and social policy, science and philosophy, cultural studies and the social sciences."

No hay que confundir imagen del cuerpo con esquema corporal. El esquema corporal especifica al individuo en cuanto representante de la especie: es, en principio, el mismo para todos. La imagen del cuerpo, en cambio, es propia de cada uno: esta ligada al sujeto y a su historia. Soporte del narcisismo, es eminentemente inconsciente. Es la encarnacion simbolica del sujeto deseante. A partir de este concepto, y remitiendose una y otra vez a la experiencia analitica, FranC'oise Dolto sigue fase por fase la elaboracion de la imagen del cuerpo, demostrando que, en cada ocasion, el umbral es superado por una castracion. Lo cual la conduce a describir la patologia de la imagen del cuerpo, que se revela, etapa por etapa, un fracaso de la simbolizacion: a saber, insuficiencia del lenguaje dirigido al nino e incumplimiento de la prohibicion. Porque tal es la paradoja de lo que ensena la elaboracion de FranC'oise Dolto: el yo se asienta en la imagen del cuerpo, pero esta, a su vez, se elabora a traves de una serie de castraciones que no ha de vacilarse en reconocer como simboligenas. Y esta es la clave de la humanizacion.