Bridges, From Mother To The External World
Cover via Amazon July 29, 2014 ----- by Perri Klass , M.D. Ask any small group of parents about transitional objects -- stuffed animals or little blankets that their children affectionately cling to for comfort and security -- and you'll get a good story, usually of the precious item misplaced or lost at some critical juncture. The most unlikely people tell you the names of their treasured childhood blankets or get misty-eyed about a stuffed bear. The British experts who first wrote about the term mentioned Winnie the Pooh and Aloysius, the teddy bear in " Brideshead Revisited "; a recent literary incarnation is Knuffle Bunny , in the series of three picture books by Mo Willems . But the formative American take on transitional objects is probably Linus, with his blanket, in Charles M. Schulz 's Peanuts cartoons, which date to the 1950s and the moment of the original psychoanalytic discussion of the phenomenon. "The parents get to know its val...