Tag: family romance

December 5, 2025 / Mohammed looti

FAMILY ROMANCE

Definition and Conceptual Framework The concept of Family Romance, while bearing a name familiar to psychoanalytic theory, is broadly utilized in sociological and family studies to describe an intricate and complex relational phenomenon characterized by the functional assumption of parental roles. Fundamentally, it is defined as a relationship existing between two or more individuals wherein […]

October 14, 2025 / Mohammed looti

FOSTER-CHILD FANTASY

The Foster-Child Fantasy: A Psychoanalytic Perspective The Core Definition of Foster-Child Fantasy The Foster-Child Fantasy is a specific, widely recognized psychological phenomenon defined as the childhood belief or intense preoccupation that one’s current, biological parents are not the true progenitors, but rather are adoptive or foster parents who have mistakenly or deliberately concealed the child’s […]