Freud expands greatly on the impact that sexual relations within a family have dire effects on an individual throughout different stages of their lives. While I don’t agree with a great deal of what he is saying, the one part that I do agree with is when he stated the first level of neurotic estrangement – children and individuals often picture the ideal relationship based on what they missed out on with their own families, and begin to fulfill the wishes that were never completed with their parents and siblings on outside partners involved. While I would not go fully to Freud’s length and say these are the sole reasons of why we choose the people we choose in our lives, I think these reasons do definitely have a say in it. As human beings, we often choose to ignore the good that comes out of relationships – especially those relationships that  we have no say over such as out mothers, fathers and siblings – and we focus on all the things we should have gotten out of them instead by comparing them to others’ good fortune. By doing this, we know exactly what we don’t want in a future relationship, because in a sense, we’ve already lived through it once and would rather not have to do it again, especially if in this case, we will have agency over who can enter our lives. This sort of “replacing” behavior, as Freud points out, is surprisingly rooted in notions of truth that cannot easily be uncovered with the naked eye. Rather, one needs to fully examine the family dynamic to understand this impact.