According to the article entitle “Family Romance”. Freud attempted to explained the common phenomenon when children first become independent of their parent’s authority. Freud states that “one of the most necessary though one of the most painful result brought about by the course of a child development. “In the first couple of years of life the parents are at first the only authority and the source of all belief and it is only after multiple experiences that child gets to know other parents and compares them with his own and so acquires the right to doubt the incomparable and unique quality he had attributed to them”. However, at some point in childhood, some child feels ignored and humiliate by their parents and later seeks revenge through some imaginary means.

Ultimately, Freud focuses on the development of basic romantic attachment and fantasies between children and family members, especially parents. As Freud says, the progress of civilization, history is the process of one generation superseding another. Similarly, the process of growth of children in the family involves the desire of the children to supersede and overcome their parents.