Data have been presented indicating the memorialization in various types of artifacts of that early relationship between the hand and the breast which comes to symbolize security at its maximum. A hypothesis as to the significance of certain types of prehistoric 'Venus' figures and other artifacts is offered. It is that these artifacts served as breast substitutes to be held in the hand for magical regressive practices related to threatened or actual famine, object loss, or other stressful situations. Certain artifacts also indicate the beginnings in prehistoric times of the type of displacement of guilt and projection of oral aggression onto the hand that can be seen classically today in obsessional neurosis.