Throughout the passage Freud discussed some valid points about family romance to a certain degree. On page 238, Freud states “At about the period I have mentioned, then, the child’s imagination becomes engaged in the task of getting free from the parents of whom he now has a low opinion and of replacing them by others, who, as a rule, are of higher social standing.” As a child I used to day dream about Oprah being my mom; being that Oprah social standing is much higher than my parents. However, my daydreams remained just that a daydream; I never had thoughts of my biological parents being my adoptive parents. I never tried to justify my fantasy into my reality. Freud theory is basically stating the child is trying to adjust and replace their family’s circumstances. The child clearly wants a richer family. He makes that clear on page 238 when he states, “the family romance undergoes a curious curtailment: it contents itself with exalting the child’s father”. Just shows the hostile behavior the child has with the his father being that their the same sex.

What confused me the most is when he touched based on the “Second (sexual stage).
Freud mentions, “The child, having learnt about sexual processes, tends to picture to himself erotic situations and relations, the motive force behind this being his desire to bring his mother (who is the subject of the most intense sexual curiosity) into situations of secret infidelity and into secret love-affairs.” Is the child trying to find his mother a rich man or is he having fantasy of erotic relations with his mother?

Some of Freud’s proposals are useful for understanding my family relations; while most doesn’t apply. For example, he talks about having to share your parent’s love and affection with your other siblings. On page 237 he states “on which he feels he is not receiving the whole of his parents’ love, and, most of all, on which he feels regrets at having to share it with brothers
and sisters.” Me being a family of 8, words cannot explain how many times I felt left out or I lacked attention. I feed off of attention which made it extremely difficult to share my parents. Although, I was my parent’s favorite child, at least that’s what I believe; I never allowed my jealousy to get the best of me.