The Tooth Fairy: Psychological Issues Related to Baby Tooth Loss and Mythological Working Through

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• 作者：Donald Capps (1)
  Nathan Carlin (2)
  
• 关键词：Tooth fairy legend and rituals ; The tooth fairy ; The tooth mouse ; El Ratón Pérez ; Baby teeth ; Children’s books ; Psychological issues ; Infant ; mother relationship ; Erik H. Erikson ; Rosemary Wells ; Guilt ; Working through
• 刊名：Pastoral Psychology
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：June 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：63
• 期：3
• 页码：265-280
• 全文大小：259 KB
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• 作者单位：Donald Capps (1)
  Nathan Carlin (2)
  
  1. Princeton Theological Seminary, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ, 08542-0803, USA
  2. McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, The University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin, JJL 400, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
  
• ISSN：1573-6679

文摘

In this article, we focus on the Tooth Fairy legend that emerged in the United States and Britain in the nineteenth century and on the bedtime rituals associated with it. Drawing on various children’s books, we present this legend and these rituals as among the many legends and rituals found around the world for dealing with the loss of baby teeth in early childhood. Our particular concern is with some of the psychological issues that are associated with the development of teeth in the second stage of infancy. We also draw on the clinical observations of Erik H. Erikson, as we focus especially on the role that teeth play in the loss of the original unity between the infant and its mother. We take note of Erikson’s suggestion that this is, ontogenetically speaking, the experience that is portrayed in the biblical story of the Fall and expulsion from the Garden in Genesis 3. We view the rituals associated with the Tooth Fairy legend as a mythological means of enabling children to address and work through these psychological issues.