For the Youtube video conversation go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2i0PkG5rjjaOSrRzUotRQ Sue Erikson Bloland, is author In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik Erikson. The book is about her role, her pain and and eventual evolution as the daughter of psychologist and psychoanalyst, Erik Erikson, and his wife Joan. It is about the dynamics of fame and the underlying fragility in famous people, both in her own family and in our culture.
Sue Erikson Bloland, is author In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik Erikson. The book is about her role, her pain and and eventual evolution as the daughter of psychologist and psychoanalyst, Erik Erikson, and his wife Joan. It is about the dynamics of fame and the underlying fragility in famous people, both in her own family and in our culture.
For those of us who have revered her father to the extent of putting him on a pedestal, the book is both disturbing and liberating as Sue helps the reader see what we all sacrifice when aiming to be on a pedestal ourselves, or when supporting the fragile ego of the underbelly of fame in others.
The book describes Sue’s trials, including the family’s secret experience of the birth and institutionalization of a child with Downs Syndrome, sharing details which some friends and colleagues considered a betrayal of her parents’ reputation.
The memoir also reveals aspects of health, including her own as Sue blossoms authentically through social work school and into becoming a psychoanalyst.