The Little Match-Girl, Mother's big "slippers"

I want to comment on the imagery of Mother's big "slippers" in the fairy tale, The Little Match-Girl:

Imaging a slipper, a “light, low-cut shoe” that easily slips “on or off the foot.” Its not much protection in the snowy, cold weather, and then it doesn’t hold fast but slips easily off the foot. Consider also the play on words, what is a “slipper.” An intra-psychic slipper might be an aspect of ourselves that doesn’t hold fast, doesn’t grab hold. It comes into consciousness only to be lost rather quickly as it slips away. Slippers are aspects of ourselves that slip easily away from consciousness, aspects of ourselves without much constancy.

How do we translate this psychologically? We might say that the Match-Girl’s relationship to the ground, the reality principle, is slippery and that somehow it is related to her mother, perhaps part of a mother complex. She hasn’t received shoes that would provide sturdy and constant support for “taking possession of the ground,” in other words, she has not received the proper tools that would allow her to find a proper relationship to the world about her, but instead has received shoes that prove too inconsequential to be of much support in this manner, and shoes that slip off easily—a sort of inconstant (perhaps inconsistent) aid in the Match-Girl’s ability to relate to the ground, i.e. the world about her. Remember, The Match-Girl engages in fantasy to fulfill important needs.