Thumbs, Pacifiers and Other Lifelines for Struggling Adults

David Sahyoun, 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Pacifier Psychoanalysis Sucking Thumb-Sucking Adults

Once confined to the private world of early childhood, this scene has now entered the public eye: on TikTok, adults share their “comfort moments,” thumb in mouth or a trendy pacifier between their lips, openly embracing a return to childhood or the soothing pull of regression. In one viral video, viewed more than three million times, a young ...