Family Romances

As Freud says, ” For a child his parents are at first the only authority and the source of all belief” I totally agree with this idea because the process of growth of children in the family involves the aspiration of the children to replace and overcome their parents. I remember when I was a child all I wished was to be like  my parents until I grew up and see things differently. One of Freud’s primary arguments is the conflict and relationship surrounded by the family. This is on the development of the romantic attachments and fantasies between children and parents. According to Freud there are many occasions on which a child feels he is not receiving the whole love of his parents. This mostly happens when the child has siblings and feels that his parents love his siblings more than him. I agree with this because most of us has gone through these feelings, sometimes we can even imagine that our parents are maybe not our biological parents. We also often compare our parents to other parents and have negative ideas about them when something happen to us or when we are dissatisfied.

Aminata Toure