Family Romance

This is by far one of the most interesting readings I have done in a while. I can start off by saying I disagree with most of Freud’s ideas in his piece of Family Romance. However, there are some parts where I actually agree or can at least somewhat understand his train of thought, most of the ideas I agree with him are at the beginning of his piece. Basing it on my own personal experience I do understand why he states that to a child their parents are their everything, every belief does come from their parents. I can totally agree with his point of view because growing up all my beliefs did come from my parents and just like Freud said I aspired to be like my parents.  Then his other idea about a child’s jealousy with another sibling is true, children will always seek attention as they grow up so that train of thought I as well agree. However, after this I ultimately start to disagree with Freud’s ideas, as I grew up, I never really wanted to exchange my parents for other adults, my parents raised me to appreciate what I have and to strive for what I wanted. I believe creating this other imagination to replace your parents is just wrong. I’m as well not sure if I understood his idea on sexuality correctly like being attracted to a family member was just way too weird I believe his thoughts and ideas can be relevant in the past not in today’s world.