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• Title: Thomas Wolfe and the Family Romance.
• Author : Thomas Wolfe Review
• Release Date : January 01, 2006
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 187 KB

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As Oscar Wilde quipped, "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them." According to Freud's theory of the family romance, children become disenchanted with their parents much earlier than one might think, but their imagination compensates for these disappointments. In "The Family Romance of Neurotics" (1909), Sigmund Freud identified a widespread, formative fantasy. (1) As early as the age of two, children may judge their parents and find them wanting. In a clumsy fashion they spin a romantic tale about themselves and their families, imagining that they were adopted or kidnapped, and that their "real" parents were richer, more powerful, or more loving than the poor substitutes they now live with. Children adapt this series of ego-boosting fantasies as they grow older, to explain or make up for further disillusions and humiliations. After learning the facts of life, a child may dream up a past affair between his or her mother and a prestigious and wealthy man, who cannot acknowledge the illegitimate child (the daydreamer) as his own. Freud points out that, heartless as they may seem, these daydreams are fundamentally tender, for the parents that children dream up are as wonderful as they felt their actual parents to be in their early infancy. These fantasies satisfy children because, paradoxically, they are a return to the harmonious, intensely close relationship with the beloved, all-powerful parental figures of early childhood. Children save their affection for the mother and father of their earliest years, redirecting their anger and vengeful feelings toward "substitutes."

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