Atom Bergstrom, health researcher for over fifty years sent along to us interesting ideas about the mouth and teeth. We think you’ll find these intriguing. Atom is a frequent guest and author of "yes, No, Maybe, Chronobiotic Nutrition." Atoms Archives
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Dr. Sigmund
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, c. 1950, 1978, "We have a case of
such displacement [from below to above] when the genitals are replaced by the
face in the symbolism of unconscious thought. This is corroborated by the fact
that verbal image relates the buttocks to the cheeks, and the labia
minora to the lips which enclose the orifice of the mouth. The nose is
compared to the penis in numerous allusions, and in each case the presence of
hair completes the resemblance. Only one feature – the teeth – is beyond all
possibility of being compared in this way; but it is just this coincidence of
agreement and disagreement which makes the teeth suitable for purposes of
representation under the pressure of sexual repression."
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, c. 1950, 1978, "We have a case of
such displacement [from below to above] when the genitals are replaced by the
face in the symbolism of unconscious thought. This is corroborated by the fact
that verbal image relates the buttocks to the cheeks, and the labia
minora to the lips which enclose the orifice of the mouth. The nose is
compared to the penis in numerous allusions, and in each case the presence of
hair completes the resemblance. Only one feature – the teeth – is beyond all
possibility of being compared in this way; but it is just this coincidence of
agreement and disagreement which makes the teeth suitable for purposes of
representation under the pressure of sexual repression."
Freud frequently interpreted
tooth-extraction dreams to castration anxiety and sometimes to childbirth fears,
both cases involving "removing a part from the whole body."
According to …
Erich Neumann, The Great
Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, Second Edition, c. 1955, 1963, "The positive
femininity of the womb appears as a mouth; that is why ‘lipsare attributed to
the female genitals, and on the basis of this positive equation the mouth, as
‘upper womb,is the birthplace of the breath and the word, the Logos.
Similarly, the destructive side of the Feminine, the destructive and deathly
womb, appears most frequently in the archetypal form of a mouth bristling with
teeth. We find this symbolism in an African statuette, where the tooth-studded
womb is replaced by a gnashing mask, and in an Aztec likeness of the death
goddess, furnished with a variety of knives and sharp teeth. The motif of the
vagina
dentata is most
distinct in the mythology of the North American Indians. In the mythology of
other Indian tribes a meat-eating fish inhabits the vagina of the Terrible
Mother; the hero is the man who overcomes the Terrible Mother, breaks the teeth
out of her vagina, and so makes her into a woman."
Incidentally, teeth really are
occasionally found in the vagina.
According to …
Dr. Dean Edell, "’Vagina
Dentata- In Fact And Folklore," Health Central (Internet site), c. Jun. 11,
1999, "So this woman had one [a dermoid cyst derived from the outer layers of
embryonic skin, and capable of growing hair and teeth and bones, anything that
comes from the outer layers of the embryo] in the pelvic region and the cyst
grew teeth, and when it ruptured through the wall where the uterus joins her
vagina – there were the teeth. In my practice once, I saw one in the
eyelid."
tooth-extraction dreams to castration anxiety and sometimes to childbirth fears,
both cases involving "removing a part from the whole body."
According to …
Erich Neumann, The Great
Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, Second Edition, c. 1955, 1963, "The positive
femininity of the womb appears as a mouth; that is why ‘lipsare attributed to
the female genitals, and on the basis of this positive equation the mouth, as
‘upper womb,is the birthplace of the breath and the word, the Logos.
Similarly, the destructive side of the Feminine, the destructive and deathly
womb, appears most frequently in the archetypal form of a mouth bristling with
teeth. We find this symbolism in an African statuette, where the tooth-studded
womb is replaced by a gnashing mask, and in an Aztec likeness of the death
goddess, furnished with a variety of knives and sharp teeth. The motif of the
vagina
dentata is most
distinct in the mythology of the North American Indians. In the mythology of
other Indian tribes a meat-eating fish inhabits the vagina of the Terrible
Mother; the hero is the man who overcomes the Terrible Mother, breaks the teeth
out of her vagina, and so makes her into a woman."
Incidentally, teeth really are
occasionally found in the vagina.
According to …
Dr. Dean Edell, "’Vagina
Dentata- In Fact And Folklore," Health Central (Internet site), c. Jun. 11,
1999, "So this woman had one [a dermoid cyst derived from the outer layers of
embryonic skin, and capable of growing hair and teeth and bones, anything that
comes from the outer layers of the embryo] in the pelvic region and the cyst
grew teeth, and when it ruptured through the wall where the uterus joins her
vagina – there were the teeth. In my practice once, I saw one in the
eyelid."
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