family romance

noun

Etymology

From family + romance, in psychoanalytic sense after German Familienroman.

  1. derived from Familienroman

Definitions

  1. A romantic story about a given family.

  2. A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty…

    A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty or otherwise of high birth; (loosely), the emotional ties linking the various members of a family.

    • Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA