In Freud’s Family Relationships he discusses the inter family relationships from birth on. Primarily focusing on a childs relationship with his parents throughout his/her lifetime.    He begins the article by speaking about the idea how a baby admires their parents and wants to look like them. They then begin to agree with everything their parents say, and want to emulate everything they do. When the child grows up he becomes less fond of his father. Then he speaks about the Oedipus complex. Where a child has sexual relations with the mother. I do not agree with this, but I do see where he’s coming from. Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” is related to Freud’s ideas on relationship. It relates to Freud’s ideas in that it discusses the conflict between a father and his son. This story is about a boy, Sartoris, that has a conflict with his father, and debates whether or not to protect him. Sartoris knows that his father burnt down the barn of Mr. Harris, but debates whether to protect him. He sees the judge as evil, just because he is going against his father, this is very true to relative to Freud’s theories on the relationship between father and child. But it changes as the child rats out on his father knowing that he was wrong.