Why You Still Love Your Teddy Bear
Do you know someone that is still attached to their childhood stuffed animal or blanket? What does this say about the person? Read More: Why it's (still) okay to ...
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HEY NO TOUCHY, science says I’m allowed to have a stuffed animal. Hey guys, Julia here for DNews Most of us had a thing growing up, a teddy bear or maybe a baby blanket. Something we held on to while we slept or were scared. But why do we love these inanimate things? Science shows us why we place so much meaning in objects. Psychologist Donald Winnicott who was a prominent member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society, introduced the idea of a transitional object. That these things help us transition in some way. They ease the separation between mother and child. Babies don’t see themselves as independent, they believe they are one and the same as their mother. As the mother starts to separate this causes anxiety in a child. A bear or blanket hel...
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HEY NO TOUCHY, science says I’m allowed to have a stuffed animal. Hey guys, Julia here for DNews Most of us had a thing growing up, a teddy bear or maybe a baby blanket. Something we held on to while we slept or were scared. But why do we love these inanimate things? Science shows us why we place so much meaning in objects. Psychologist Donald Winnicott who was a prominent member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society, introduced the idea of a transitional object. That these things help us transition in some way. They ease the separation between mother and child. Babies don’t see themselves as independent, they believe they are one and the same as their mother. As the mother starts to separate this causes anxiety in a child. A bear or blanket hel...
