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In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson book cover

1st Edition

In the Shadow of Fame A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson

By Sue Erikson Bloland Copyright 2027
184 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the author's upbringing with her famous father, Erik H. Erikson, and how her parents' attempts to heal their childhood trauma through his celebrity led to pain for them and for her. Exploring the motivations for her parents, Sue Erikson Bloland takes a compassionate look at how the drive for external recognition and fame can distort attempts to heal childhood wounds and... Read more

Introduction to the Classic Edition  1. Fame and the Fairy Tale  2. The Orinda Years  3. My Parents' Childhoods  4. They Meet  5. Achieving the Fantasy: Fame  6. Berkeley in the 1960s  7. New Beginnings  8. Becoming a Psychoanalyst  9. Laurence Olivier  10. The Quest for Understanding  11. Going Public Myself  12. The Eye of the Beholder

Biography

Sue Erikson Bloland obtained her master’s in social work from New York University and her certificate in psychoanalysis from the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and has lectured widely on the topic of fame. She is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City and a faculty member at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Praise for the previous edition

'Sue Erikson Bloland writes with keen wisdom and wonderful rich detail about her famous father, her highly accomplished mother, her family secrets, and the struggle to find her essential self in the proximity and psychic heat of their fame.  I wish I had read this book as a teenager; she could have saved me a dozen years of therapy.'

Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash

 

'This is a remarkable, deeply captivating exercise in self-reflection and self-understanding. Sue Bloland excavates the complex, layered dynamics of the family that her prominent parents forged. She arrives at unprecedented depth and remarkable insights.'

Lawrence J. Friedman, author of Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson; Visiting Professor, History of Science, Harvard University

 

'Sue Erikson Bloland’s memoir is, at once, a heart-rending account of family tragedy in the context of driven aspirations and profound achievement and an illumination of fame as a powerful dynamic process.  She transforms pain-filled experience into personal, and now shared, truth.'

M. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., ABPP, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director, Erikson Institute for Education and Research, Austen Riggs Center

                       

'Drawing on often painful experiences as the child of celebrated parents, Sue Erikson Bloland illuminates how fame affects the dazzled public, those closest to the celebrity, and the celebrity himself.'

Howard Gardner, author of Changing Minds; Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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