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IN THE SHADOW OF FAME: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson

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In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik Erikson (Book Review)

Because to succeed at their work they don't focus on parenting, rather, they focus on their work. Through the neglect of their child yes, hiring the best nanny money can buy IS neglect! Their child cannot be ambitious, because ambition is his enemy.

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This book confirms everything I have long thought about the best way to raise children, especially if you find yourself to have a "type a" personality. Your children MUST be more important than your work. If they are not, they will be miserable, whiny, betas, like the author of this book. And when they grow up, they will write a nasty book about you to get even. This book gets two stars instead of one because it finally got interesting in the very last chapter, though the last chapter may only have been interesting because she paraphrases Becker, not because she had anything to add.

Nov 21, Sharon rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a tough one to rate. It's certainly not a feel-good story, so human nature might lead one to rate it lower than it deserves on merit. While it is always painful and uncomfortable to learn the human failings of brilliant minds, the reader should be grateful for the more nuanced reality of Erikson and for the possible mirror it holds to our own balance of work and parenting and the implications for our own children. Where this book really shone for me is in a short but sweet spotlighting o This is a tough one to rate.

Where this book really shone for me is in a short but sweet spotlighting of how some common childhood dynamics have shaped many of the overachieving minds of recent history. Extra bonus points for being short 6 hrs , easy listen in audiobook format. Jun 06, Martin rated it it was ok.

I wish I could have given this a higher star rating, but it really said nothing new about the intersection between withholding parents and high achievement in one's field. The author's mother and father both accomplished a significant amount of self-inventi I wish I could have given this a higher star rating, but it really said nothing new about the intersection between withholding parents and high achievement in one's field. The author's mother and father both accomplished a significant amount of self-invention, but Erik Erikson was also raked over the coals for hiding part of his Jewish heritage and also for a perceived gender bias in his work , and was considered by some to be somewhat of a phony.

Very thoughtful and revealing book about Bloland's life, about the psychological ripples of fame, and of how appearances often deceive. Jun 30, Judy rated it it was amazing. The author's stories of her mother and father helped me understand others better.

Couldn't put it down. A wonderful story of what lies beneath what looks like a perfect family. Jun 17, Cary rated it liked it Shelves: The title says it Apr 26, Nicole Marble rated it did not like it. Rosalind Reisner rated it really liked it Aug 16, Darshana rated it really liked it Feb 01, David rated it really liked it Apr 04, Shirlene rated it did not like it Oct 15, Rebecca rated it really liked it Oct 01, Paul J rated it liked it Feb 29, Catie rated it it was amazing Feb 08, Cristin rated it liked it Aug 31, Sarah rated it it was ok May 16, Toula rated it liked it Sep 06, Janet Torosian rated it really liked it Aug 08, Marcia rated it really liked it Jun 01, Jon rated it liked it Nov 23, Y rated it it was ok Jan 05, Alison rated it really liked it Dec 03, Bud rated it liked it Nov 12, Ellen rated it it was amazing Mar 31, Bloland herself was 5 and her mother When at last Mother went to the hospital to give birth, I stayed with family friends.

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The hours of waiting turned into days His face was anguished. The baby, he said, died at birth. Mother was still in the hospital and would need time to recover. I could not come home yet. And when I did I had lost the baby that she and I were to care for together and I had lost the opportunity to bond with her in this special way My brothers and I had been told that Neil had died. But there was no burial, no ritual A Biography of Erik H. While his wife was still unconscious from anesthesia, Erikson, with the help of Margaret Mead, made the decision to institutionalize the child, whom they were told would not survive much beyond infancy.

Her mother, according to Ms. At the same time she felt guilty about her own paralysis in the matter. As a consequence of these dynamics, the marriage was shaken to its foundation and the couple considered divorce.

In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik Erikson (Book Review)

Bloland learned later from her mother, was involved in a relationship with a research assistant. Her mother, very distressed, went for a week to see Frieda Fromm-Reichmann whom the Eriksons knew in Taos, New Mexico and felt considerable relief as a result. These are sad events indeed. This period in the lives of the Ericksons are given a somewhat different turn by Friedman. According to Friedman, it was, in fact, largely her decision to keep Neil institutionalized, a decision she made because of a combination of factors: First, Neil did not respond to her personally as his mother, which hurt her deeply; second, she already had plenty to care for at home.

The outcome of all this was that she tried, without much guidance, to find a good placement for him and once she found one that seemed to be okay, she kept him there. Their reading expanded as their ideas grew. They bungled her schooling, she says, removing her from one school, where for the first time in her life she had won some recognition, and sent her instead to another, where she felt completely lost.

Unconsciously, all along, she had identified a lot with Neil, the stupid one, she tells us. Her resistance to her parents continued well past college, Ms. Bloland continues, and was evident in the work she finally chose.

From here on the book is largely focused on Ms. Her secretarial work at the Institute of International Studies, in Berkeley, according to Friedman is barely mentioned as providing her with anything of importance. What was important was that she met and married an academic, an intellectual like her father.

The marriage, in which she bore a son, did not last. Bloland, who had returned to the East with her husband and was settled in New York, was more than a little confused about who she was at this point in her life; and was also feeling inadequate as a mother in comparison to her own mother. At this point, for the first time in her life, apparently, she went to see a therapist, to someone recommended by a friend.

She was in her thirties. Relevant here and interesting to me, in Ms. Her mother, she tells us, went into analysis well before the birth of Neil, only because she thought it was expected of her.

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She fabricated dreams for her analyst to interpret and laughed when he tried to imply that she could be lasciviously oedipally interested in him. It is difficult to get a clear picture from Ms. Bloland is quite precise about her own love of psychoanalysis.