family romance

Meaning

Noun

  • A romantic story about a given family.
  • A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty or otherwise of high birth; , the emotional ties linking the various members of a family.

Origin

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

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