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The Family Romance of the French Revolution By Hunt, Lynn Avery  title : The Family Romance of the French Revolution author : Hunt, Lynn Avery. publisher : University of California Press isbn10 | asin : 0520082702 print isbn13 : 9780520082700 ebook isbn13 : 9780585178332 language : English subject ? France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Psychological aspects, Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793--Death and burial, Symbolism in politics--France--History--18th century, Regicides, Family--France--History--18th century. publication date : 1992 lcc : DC148.H86 1992eb ddc : 944.04 subject : France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Psychological aspects, Louis--XVI,--King of France,--1754-1793--Death and burial, Symbolism in politics--France--History--18th century, Regicides, Family--France--History--18th century. One hundred books published between 1990 and 1995 bear this special imprint of the University of California Press. We have chosen each Centenmal Book as an example of the Presss finest publishing and bookmaking traditions as we celebrate the beginning of our second century UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS The Family Romance of the French Revolution Lynn Hunt University of California PressBerkeley · Los Angeles Contents Illustrations Preface Since the title of this book may be obscure to some readers, I will begin with a few words of explanation about what I mean by family romance. The term is Freuds, though it is now used, especially by literary critics, in ways that are only loosely related to Freuds original formulation. By family romance Freud meant the neurotics fantasy of getting free from the parents of whom he now has a low opinion and of replacing them by others, who, as a rule, are of higher social standing. When the child feels slighted by his parents, he (he, in particular, since Freud thought this tendency was much weaker in girls) retaliates by imagining that these are not in fact h