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(“Well, my tooth has been bothering me. I was wondering if it has anything to do with George Rhodes’ tooth trouble.”)

Give us a moment... There are correlations in your overall experience with George. Otherwise, regarding the tooth episode in particular, there is only the fact that you have used the idea of the tooth and George’s difficulty to organize certain elements of your own experience so that by having the cavity filled a need will be satisfied.

The need is a sexual one—your sweet tooth—for your sexual feelings have been rearoused by your intimate encounters with Ruburt, even while neither of you thus far have even been willing to devote time to sexual gratification in the deepest terms.

(“Good night.” 11:30 PM. I thought Seth’s data on the tooth mechanisms very acute indeed. Jane and I haven’t done anything about the hypnosis suggestions, obviously; we need our recorder repaired. I sometimes think it impossible to do all we want to do, or think we should, in the course of an ordinary day. Even if we could manage this, I fear we’d end up so regimented that half of the tasks would be self-defeating. I do think that on my part at least this feeling underlies some of my own shortcomings. Seth was quite chiding in a gently amused way tonight when mentioning the hypnosis affair, his voice quiet, and, I thought, rather tired. This weekend—it’s Sunday afternoon as I type this—we’ve been literally so occupied that we didn’t take the time to go food shopping for the week’s supply. This means extra time later in the week to make up. Nor did Jane get her mail answered yesterday, as she had planned to do, nor did she find the time to putter about in the house, either in her writing room, or the studio annex.)

(At last break I’d asked Jane if Seth could say a few words about why my front tooth was bothering me. [...] The tooth was still bothering me at break.

(After the session I told Jane that my pendulum had told me that my tooth was bothering me because I was worried about her teeth these weeks. [...] Yet overall I hadn’t been able to break the tooth-worry habit, while knowing I should.

[...] Today I have been entirely free of any tooth discomfort, for the first time in weeks. [...]

(Seth started to say good night, but I interposed a question about my front tooth. [...] I also felt I was attacking the tooth, for whatever reasons. [...]

The tooth symptom is a result of those feelings, and of tensing the mouth and jaw. [...]

(Seth talked about teeth tonight because of my visit to the dentist today, in an effort—apparently successful—to save a front capped tooth which had suddenly begun to act up. I regard it as a very close call, and hope the filling put in will save the tooth. In addition, Jane also has tooth trouble—one of her bottom teeth is loosening....)

[...] The matter of a bad tooth, or teeth, is not to be overlooked, but it should not be an occasion to put the self down, the cause of self-accusing thoughts, or bring about unfortunate feelings of inferiority.

(It follows that Jane did keep her tooth during the women’s visit, losing it while still in bed early Saturday morning. Strangely, she could eat and chew better with the tooth gone than while she still had it. I’m very sensitive to tooth troubles, of course, and probably project some of this upon others; but Jane’s losing the tooth reminded me of Seth’s very recent declaration that she might lose more teeth because of the relaxation taking place in her jaws. We’ll see whether she can retain her two front teeth, which shifted their position at once after the eye tooth dropped out.

(Jane lost an eye tooth early this morning, before we got up. It became abundantly clear that she was going to lose the tooth a couple of days ago, as it began to visibly descend from its socket; I could see it wobble in its socket as we ate breakfast Friday morning, and she expected to lose it at any minute. [...]

What happened is this: the large neck ligaments considerably loosened further, releasing important areas of the jaw—unfortunately enough dislodging a tooth. [...]

[...] A belief in the principles given, without equivocation, will save even the tooth that is loosest. [...] Ruburt must completely believe, however, that that tooth can be saved.

[...] It is important of course that he does not concentrate upon the tooth as a problem. [...]

[...] On the day it was held, January 10, Seth said there wouldn’t be any more great trouble for Jane through the tooth symptoms. [...] The tooth symptoms have hung on, perhaps not as severely; they frighten Jane a good deal. [...]

(Jane had the “tooth bit” in a rather distant way, briefly after breakfast and after supper today. [...]

[...] The tooth was meant to get his attention, to make him realize the importance of acting now. [...]

[...] His fear of the tooth pain was a physical interpretation of his fear of facing the dilemma, the pain of bringing it out into the open. [...]

(This brief session was held to help deal with Jane’s recurring tooth symptoms. [...]

[...] Jane also told me that she liked class—we had discussed her dropping it soon—and that she intended to be “freer” in it from now on; and that the tooth thing would be conquered. [...]

[...] I’d broken a tooth last night, and feared I’d lose it.

The tooth business will be taken care of. [...]

[...] The tooth hygiene mentioned is important, however.

The pain in your tooth is caused by an irritated nerve leading to the tooth. [...]

(During break we also discussed the falling tree limb incident that I wanted to ask Seth about, and the tooth that had been bothering me for several days. [...]

(Concerning the information Seth gave on my tooth, Jane said she tried very hard not to block it or interfere with it. [...]

The tooth and nerves and roots are now at rest. [...]

[...] A couple of months ago, a close friend developed painful tooth and jaw symptoms — resulting in a loss of weight — for the reasons given below.)

[...] This experience follows, of course, the one I had for my last appointment, and which is on record — when I chipped a tooth and went to my dentist’s office the same day to see if he could fix it — and discovered that I had an appointment I’d forgotten about for that very same time on that same day. [...]

[...] I told my wife that I had indeed lost the tooth.)

[...] He has kept that tooth (pointing) in his mouth for six months. [...]

[...] I read the session so far to Jane, but it wasn’t easy: because of the lost tooth I had trouble enunciating clearly. [...]

[...] I thought it a bad tooth. [...] The pendulum told Jane the swelling was psychosomatic and not a tooth; the doctor agreed, eventually, and Seth did too, in the 59th session for June 3,1964. [...]

(I asked that Seth comment on my tooth-extraction hang-ups—involving the attendant soreness and my reactions to the whole affair—as well as the mouth-breathing difficulty. [...]