family romance

== English == === Etymology === From family + romance, in psychoanalytic sense after German Familienroman. === Noun === family romance (plural family romances) A romantic story about a given family. [from 19th c.] (psychoanalysis) 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. [from 20th c.] ==== Translations ====