How Françoise Dolto links Lacanian psychoanalysis with the Christian Gospels.
This article introduces to an English-speaking audience of pastoral therapists, the writings of the French Lacanian psychoanalyst, Françoise Dolto (1908-1988) on the links she discovered between the most profound question raised by Lacanian psychoanalysis in its dynamics effects and the questions raised by the Christian Gospels. The author summarizes the main points of Dolto's Lacanian thought and where she departed from Lacan in her interpretation of the unconscious ethic of desire. Using Dolto's three writings on Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Bible, as well as material from her published clinical studies, the author illustrates Dolto's approach to the Bible, the parable of the Good Samaritan, and her application of the dialectical principles of desire in three case studies.
Slattery
Maureen
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Faculty of Human Sciences, St. Paul University, 223 Main, Ottawa, Canada K1S 1C4.
D002170:Canada; D002835:Christianity; D006801:Humans; D010327:Pastoral Care; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D012069:Religion and Psychology