jaws
The Seba library treats Jaw in 7 passages, across 4 authors (including Campbell, Joseph, Freud, Sigmund, Onians, R B).
Fenris-Wolf shall run free, and advance with lower jaw against the earth, upper against the heavens (‘he would gape yet more if there were room for it’); fires shall blaze from his eyes and nostrils.
Campbell presents the Norse Fenris-Wolf’s gaping jaw as a mythic image of cosmic destruction, the maximal opening of the devouring maw as eschatological symbol.
, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 2015thesis
In our part of the world the act of masturbation is vulgarly known as ‘sich einen ausreissen’ or ‘sich einen herunterreissen’… sexual repression makes use of transpositions from a lower to an upper part of the body. (In the present [case] the lower jaw to the upper jaw.)
Freud identifies displacement from lower jaw to upper jaw as a mechanism of sexual repression, through which masturbatory and genital meanings are transposed onto the dental-stimulus dream.
, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900thesis
I had a dream that I was at the dentist drilling a back tooth in my lower jaw. He worked on it so long [it] became useless. He then seized it with a forceps and pulled it out… it was connected with puberty.
The dental-stimulus dream centred on the lower jaw serves as Freud’s primary clinical exhibit for the displacement of puberty, castration, and genital symbolism onto tooth extraction.
, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900thesis
not yet showing on his jaws the fruit-season, tender mother of the vine bud
Onians demonstrates that classical Greek thought located the emergence of generative power in the jaws—specifically in the first growth of beard—linking the jaw directly to puberty, seed, and procreative vitality.
, The origins of European thought about the body, the mind,, 1988thesis
Tusked Jaw of a Sacrificial Boar. a.d. 19th century. New Hebrides
Campbell catalogues the tusked jaw of a sacrificial boar as a ritual object in Melanesian culture, marking the jaw as a site of sacred power and sacrificial symbolism.
, The Mythic Image, 1974supporting
When my boss clenches his jaw, I perceive that he is angry.
Ogden employs jaw-clenching as a clinical exemplar of body-language reading, illustrating how the jaw involuntarily registers and communicates suppressed anger in the somatic idiom.
, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Interventions for Trauma and, 2015supporting
he found no bodies but only urns containing nothing but fine ashes, all but one, which contained a skull minus its lower jaw
Onians records the ritual absence of the lower jaw in burial contexts at Troy, suggesting the jaw held a special relation to life-substance or soul in archaic Mediterranean practice.
, The origins of European thought about the body, the mind,, 1988supporting