| 单词 | family romance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfamily romance family romance n. [in sense (b) after German Familienroman (Freud, 1909)] (a) a romantic story centred on a particular family; (b) Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory) a childhood fantasy characterized by the belief that one is not the child of one's parents, but that one is in fact of royal or high birth. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > a romance > specific atalantis1709 Milesian tale?1799 family romance1814 1814 Lady Morgan O'Donnel II. ii. 45 We have already been entertained beyond every thing with a little family romance of your's. 1910 Living Age 21 May 509/2 It is a long and very well-plotted family romance. 1913 Amer. Med. Oct. 680/1 That..is easily explained and refers to the so-called ‘family romance’ of neurotics who, as we know, imagine themselves the children of noble parents. 1993 Washington Post 18 Jan. c4/3 The limited action sequences are incidental to the torpid family romance. 2007 V. Loichot Orphan Narr. ii. 40 This is no Freudian family romance in which the fictive parents belong to a noble kind. < as lemmas |
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