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This text attempts to underscore the significant role of Francoise Dolto, the French child psychoanalyst, working with traumatized children during and after World War II. Being mostly known as a friend and colleague of Jacques Lacan, her own original clinical work was often overshadowed by the more prominent psychoanalysts on the French scene. Francoise Dolto could be considered as working in a relational mode, but more importantly, she truly put the concept of the symbolic to work, speaking to infants from the beginnings of their lives in an adult language, always invoking and including the instance of the law and the Third in her analytic work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]