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Latent Thumb-Sucking—a New Chimerical Syndrome

Psychoanalytic description of the successive stages of sexual development and consideration of the concept of an association between latent homosexuality and anal fixation suggested that there might be sequelae of latent oral conflicts. Investigation showed many phenomena worth consideration. I have grouped these under the rubric of latent thumbsucking. Latent thumb-sucking is the catchaU term suggested for activities and attitudes which derive directly or indirectly from the repression of the universal need of infants to suck. When the satisfaction of this need is prevented by the mother, it is to be expected that some fixation at the oral level wiU occur. Such frustration might result from too-early weaning from breast or bottle and later prevention ofthumb-sucking by the various finger guards, painting the fingers with bitter substances, slapping the hand or child, or by other evidence of disapproval. It can be surmised that the frustrating parent or parental surrogate is hostüe to the child but offers such excuses as the statement of dentists that thumb-sucking may produce deformities of the dental arch. These phenomena are widespread. Indeed, they are present in virtually all people in our culture. They are illustrated by such a variety of activities as the smoking of cigarettes, cigars, and pipes; the chewing of gum, especiaUy bubble gum (which combines chewing, sucking, and the appearance ofa round pink eminence in front of the mouth); the use of loUipops and sugar teats; sucking (and clutching?) at straws; the use of toothpicks as pacifiers. One may ask whether the singing of mammy (mammae?) songs reflects a yearning of this kind. There are many phenomena which can be considered as displacements of the same basic drives. The use ofUp-