...effort at replacing the real father by a superior one is only an expression of the child's longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to...and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women. He is turning away from the father he knows today to the father in whom he believed in the earlier...

...the process of growing up. The child's earliest image of parents, according to Freud, hark back to "the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to...of men and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women."47 With marriage Ivés sought, as all men do, to restore a relationship with that dearest of...

...child substitutes "exalted personages" for his humbler, unimpressive parents out of his "longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to...his mother the dearest and loveliest of women.... His phantasy is no more than the expression of a regret that those happy days are gone."23 As Swift...

...effort at replacing the real father by a superior one is only an expression of the child's longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to...mother the dearest and loveliest of women. ('Family' 240-1) The child's self-assuring story, therefore, is regressive in so far as it is based on loss and...

...According to Freud, family romance is founded in nostalgia; it is "an expression of the child's longing for the happy vanished days when his father seemed to...and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women" (emphasis added). Feminine departures from the form, however, seek not to recapture an imagined golden...

...imaginative romances. ... the child is not getting rid of his father but exalting him . . . [by] longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to him the noblest and strongest of men . . ." (224-25; emphasis mine). Although this may begin to describe Ondaatje's deployment of utopian...

...expression of the child's longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to him the nohlest and strongest of men and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women. He is turning away from the father he knows to-day to the father in whom he believed in the earlier...

...effort at replacing the real father by a superior one is only an expression of the child's longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to...and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women. (240—41) One need not extrapolate far to read Freud's comments as being applicable to literature...

...effort at replacing the real father by a superior one is only an expression of the child's longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to...and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women. He is turning away from the father whom he knows today to the father in whom he believed in the earlier...

...effort at replacing the real father by a superior one is only an expression of the child's longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to...and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women. (Freud, 1977, pp. 224-5) This fantasizing thus involves a reconstitution of the parents to take account...