Why does the child feel he has a right to use other parents as a comparison of his own. He doesn’t know the mindset of how the parents raise those children, or the responsibilities and freedoms they choose to appoint to their kids. In a sense he may be comparing a parenting style he feels is superior to his own parents, but in reality is heralding the harsher of the two.
Why does the child examine other families parents to his own but only look at the bad things that his parents does not give him? Why does the child not see how much the parents offer compared to other parents?
Family Romance
I agree to the fact that The reading is essentially saying that parents served as the first role model that a child is looking toward. But I doubt a little when the reading says that the child would not be satisfied once he or she has a sibling, due to the fact that the child feels that the parents’ love is no longer full for him/ her– because if the child looks at his or her parents as role models, then he or she should know that there are many things in the world that are to be loved, so there should not be a saying of “nothing getting all the love.”
When speaking of Freud why is the Oedipus complex the only type of “family romance” identified? Freud has this in girls but instead it is called penis envy; does this also show how Freud was very biased in his work?
How would Freud explain children who are attracted to the same sex? Or both sex? It seems like Freud’s idea of father and mothers are very gender binary, would a gender neutral family or same sex marriage bring up a different “family romance”?
Why did Freud believe that the liberation of an individual is a painful process? Did he think this because he recognized the pain from his own experiences?
The little boy in the story is constantly defending his father’s actions by explaining that their was no anger or viciousness behind them. Freud explains that a child may mentally replace his father with a superior father that he remembers from adolescence (when his father could do no wrong in his eyes). Is the father in “Barn Burning” really unintentionally cruel, or does the young boy just tell himself this to preserve the image he once had of his father?
Doesn’t Barn Burning by William Faulkner contrast what Freud says about little boys replacing their fathers with another being that was “perfect”? The little boy in Barn Burning still held the hope that his father was good man despite all the things his father has done.
Why does Abner Snopes resort to destroying what others have (i.e. barn burning) when he feels threatened? Why is he so fixated with violence as his solution, instead of thinking it through and solving his problems peacefully?
Why does Freud only discuss about the sexual desires of the male children in a family and not the female? Freud said how the child has “no hesitation in attributing to his mother as many fictitious love-affairs as he himself has competitors”… what about his sister? Does his sister feel the same for the father? Or does the sexual desires in family romance strongly affects the male child?