Romance novel can be much less successful in a European market. Although Italy is the strongest foreign market for the chick lit sold by single-title imprint Red Dress Ink, in that country romance readers do not care to read books about cowboys, as this type of occupation was not common in their culture. The paranormal romance genre is not popular in countries such as Poland and Russia, although historical romance tends to be very successful. Inspirational romance does not sell well in Europe, where romances that feature babies are very popular. German readers enjoy reading more erotic romance novels, and some German
Family romance romance in the splitting and doubling of the parents – a dichotomixation which hinders the effective working through of the parent complex. Family romance The Family romance is a psychological complex identified by Sigmund Freud in 1908, whereby the young child or adolescent fantasizes that they are really the children of parents of higher social standing than their actual parents. More broadly, the term can be used to cover the whole range of instinctual ties between siblings, and parents and children. Freud published a short piece on the Family Romance in Otto Rank's "The Myth of the Birth of the