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Susan Mailer

January 01, 1970

Susan Mailer (born August 28, 1949) is an American psychoanalyst, writer, and academic who has lived in Chile since the 1980s. Mailer is the firstborn child of American writer Norman Mailer and his first wife, Beatrice Silverman. She is the author of the 2019 memoir In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer that chronicles her relationship with her famous father.

Susan Mailer
Born (1949-08-28) August 28, 1949 (age 74)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
OccupationPsychoanalyst
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
Alma materBarnard College
GenrePsychoanalysis; memoir
Notable worksIn Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer
Spouse
Marco Colodro
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(m. 1980)​
Children3
ParentsNorman Mailer (father)
Relatives
Website
susanmailer.com

Early life and education edit

Mailer was born in Hollywood, California, while her father was there writing screenplays.[1] In 1951, her parents Norman Mailer and Beatrice Silverman divorced,[2] and her mother moved to Mexico with her future husband Salvador.[3] Mailer lived for a time with her father's parents[4] before moving to Mexico City to live with her mother.[5] She spent her early years between Mexico and the U.S., becoming bilingual and bicultural which taught her "a sense of cultural colors and nuances from an early age",[6] but made her also feel like an outsider no matter where she was physically or mentally.[7]

Mailer attended Barnard College from 1967 to 1971.[3] While there, she participated in the Columbia University protests of 1968 with Mark Rudd and John "J.J." Jacobs.[8] She also attended the infamous April 30, 1971, Town Hall, "A Dialogue on Women's Liberation", wherein Norman Mailer, acting as moderator, received a "pummeling" by the panel of high-profile feminists.[9]

Mailer completed her graduate work in Clinical Psychology in Mexico and became a psychoanalyst in 1992.[10] Part of her decision to become a psychoanalyst stems from her early interest in narrative and the complexities of character exemplified by literary works introduced to her by her father.[11][12] She ultimately finds a kinship with her father through a shared search for human understanding: she as a psychoanalyst and he as a novelist.[11][13]

In Another Place edit

Mailer's first book, In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer, is a memoir centered around her often conflicted relationship with her famous father Norman Mailer.[2] Inspired by a vignette she wrote in 2013, Mailer decided to write the memoir from a daughter's perspective of her father — a view that no other book about Norman Mailer has taken.[6][14] It chronicles the literal and figurative distance between Susan and her father that she had to negotiate throughout her life, giving the memoir its title In Another Place.[11]

Norman Mailer died in 2007, an event that Susan Mailer says was necessary for her to begin putting her relationship with him in perspective and to pick up the writer's pen. In the same interview, Mailer discusses that while her father was still alive, the act of writing was too intimidating, but after his passing, she discovered she enjoyed uncovering the inner tapestry of her life in writing.[10] She says, "I never felt I could write until my father was gone".[15]

Mailer tells Mike Lennon that "writing this memoir was a second analysis for me", and it was instrumental in helping her understand her complex emotions toward her father and her mother.[6] Writing the memoir was a way of bridging the distance between her and Norman and, she says, "bringing him back — bringing him close to me".[10] In Another Life grapples with complex relationships — especially one between a child and her famous father — and ultimately leads to redemption and a more complex understanding of Mailer herself and her relationship with her father.[14]

This memoir humanizes her experiences with her father through, as critic Nicole DePolo writes, "sharp insights honed by her career as a psychoanalyst".[16] Mailer recounts the more intense and painful moments with her father and his public life, but also depicts the more private and personal details of their relationship .[16] According to BookTrib, even well-known incidents — like Norman's stabbing of his second wife Adele (known as "the Trouble"), his participation in the 1971 Town Hall, his disastrous support of Jack Henry Abbott's parole, and his sexual interests and infidelities — are "given new perspective and treated with greater humanity through Susan's eyes".[14] She ultimately had to work through a largely negative view of her father who had come to sympathize with many of her father's opponents, particularly women.[17] Bonnie Culver calls Place a "vulnerable, funny, and tough memoir that pulls no punches" and gives access to "very painful and long-buried feelings".[18] Mailer credits her own 10-year clinical analysis for a deeper understanding about her relationship with her parents that led to the compassionate approach of her memoir.[10]

Kirkus Reviews calls In Another Place an "affable memoir" that would be of "superficial" interest to aficionados of Norman Mailer,[2] while DePolo avers that the memoir uses "crisp, vibrant prose that captures the essence of moments that are both remarkable and universally resonant".[16]

Professional life edit

While all of her other siblings went into the arts, Susan Mailer became a psychoanalyst and educator.[19] Mailer has taught at Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, and Universidad Diego Portales. Mailer has published in academic journals, both in Spanish and English, and co-founded the Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago. She is a member of various professional associations, like the International Psychoanalytic Association and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She serves on the Executive Board of the Norman Mailer Society and has published in The Mailer Review.[20]

Mailer runs her own private psychoanalytic practice in Santiago, Chile.[11]

Personal life edit

Susan Mailer met her husband Marco in Mexico City in 1975.[3] They were married in 1980 and have since lived in Santiago, Chile.[21] She has nine siblings,[22] three grown children, and four grandchildren.[14]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Lennon 2013, p. 121.
  2. ^ a b c Kirkus Reviews 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Myers 2020.
  4. ^ Lennon 2013, p. 134.
  5. ^ Mailer 2019, pp. 4–5.
  6. ^ a b c Lennon 2019.
  7. ^ Mailer 2019, p. 18.
  8. ^ Mailer 2019, pp. 139–45.
  9. ^ Mailer 2019, pp. 163–64.
  10. ^ a b c d Funke 2019.
  11. ^ a b c d Irwin 2019.
  12. ^ Mailer 2019, p. 99.
  13. ^ Mailer 2019, pp. 244–45.
  14. ^ a b c d BookTrib 2019.
  15. ^ Odell 2020, p. 2.
  16. ^ a b c DePolo 2019.
  17. ^ Odell 2020, p. 3.
  18. ^ Culver 2018, p. 256.
  19. ^ Lennon 2013, pp. 615–16.
  20. ^ "About the Norman Mailer Society". Norman Mailer Society. Project Mailer. 2019. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  21. ^ Mailer 2019, p. 215.
  22. ^ Mailer 2019, p. 222.

Bibliography edit

  • BookTrib (November 4, 2019). "'In Another Place' Paints Portrait of Norman Mailer as a Father". BookTrib. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  • Culver, Bonnie (2018). "Patrolling No-Man's Land: Living on the Border". The Mailer Review. 12 (1): 265–65.
  • DePolo, Nicole (October 19, 2019). "Review: In Another Place: With and Without my Father Norman Mailer by Susan Mailer". Hippocampus Magazine. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  • Engster, Jim (host) (October 21, 2019). Kim Neustrom, Lydia Pine, Susan Mailer. Talk Louisiana. WRKF.
  • Funke, Erika (host) (November 8, 2019). Susan Mailer. Art Scene. WVIA.
  • Irwin, Shelley (October 21, 2019). "Susan Mailer". WGVU Public Media. Grand Rapids, MI. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  • Kirkus Reviews (November 5, 2019). "Review: In Another Place With and Without My Father Norman Mailer". Kirkus. Retrieved December 4, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
  • Lennon, J. Michael (October 1, 2019). "INTERVIEW: Susan Mailer, author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer". Hippocampus Magazine. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  • — (2013). Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1439150214. OCLC 873006264.
  • Mailer, Susan (2019). In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer. Northampton House Press. ISBN 978-1937997977.
  • Myers, Marc (January 7, 2020). "Susan Mailer Remembers Road Trips and Bullfights With Her Famous Father". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  • Milam, Stan (host) (October 25, 2019). Susan Mailer Author of In Another Place and Daughter of Norman. Stan Milam Show. WCLO.
  • Odell, Michael (January 29, 2020). "'I felt liberated by my father's death'". The Times. London. pp. 2–3. Retrieved January 29, 2020.

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Susan Mailer's writing on Project Mailer

January 01, 1970
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Susan Mailer born August 28 1949 is an American psychoanalyst writer and academic who has lived in Chile since the 1980s Mailer is the firstborn child of American writer Norman Mailer and his first wife Beatrice Silverman She is the author of the 2019 memoir In Another Place With and Without My Father Norman Mailer that chronicles her relationship with her famous father Susan MailerBorn 1949 08 28 August 28 1949 age 74 Hollywood California U S OccupationPsychoanalystLanguageEnglish SpanishAlma materBarnard CollegeGenrePsychoanalysis memoirNotable worksIn Another Place With and Without My Father Norman MailerSpouseMarco Colodro m 1980 wbr Children3ParentsNorman Mailer father RelativesKate Mailer half sister Michael Mailer half brother Stephen Mailer half brother John Buffalo Mailer half brother Websitesusanmailer wbr com Contents 1 Early life and education 2 In Another Place 3 Professional life 4 Personal life 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 External linksEarly life and education editMailer was born in Hollywood California while her father was there writing screenplays 1 In 1951 her parents Norman Mailer and Beatrice Silverman divorced 2 and her mother moved to Mexico with her future husband Salvador 3 Mailer lived for a time with her father s parents 4 before moving to Mexico City to live with her mother 5 She spent her early years between Mexico and the U S becoming bilingual and bicultural which taught her a sense of cultural colors and nuances from an early age 6 but made her also feel like an outsider no matter where she was physically or mentally 7 Mailer attended Barnard College from 1967 to 1971 3 While there she participated in the Columbia University protests of 1968 with Mark Rudd and John J J Jacobs 8 She also attended the infamous April 30 1971 Town Hall A Dialogue on Women s Liberation wherein Norman Mailer acting as moderator received a pummeling by the panel of high profile feminists 9 Mailer completed her graduate work in Clinical Psychology in Mexico and became a psychoanalyst in 1992 10 Part of her decision to become a psychoanalyst stems from her early interest in narrative and the complexities of character exemplified by literary works introduced to her by her father 11 12 She ultimately finds a kinship with her father through a shared search for human understanding she as a psychoanalyst and he as a novelist 11 13 In Another Place editMailer s first book In Another Place With and Without My Father Norman Mailer is a memoir centered around her often conflicted relationship with her famous father Norman Mailer 2 Inspired by a vignette she wrote in 2013 Mailer decided to write the memoir from a daughter s perspective of her father a view that no other book about Norman Mailer has taken 6 14 It chronicles the literal and figurative distance between Susan and her father that she had to negotiate throughout her life giving the memoir its title In Another Place 11 Norman Mailer died in 2007 an event that Susan Mailer says was necessary for her to begin putting her relationship with him in perspective and to pick up the writer s pen In the same interview Mailer discusses that while her father was still alive the act of writing was too intimidating but after his passing she discovered she enjoyed uncovering the inner tapestry of her life in writing 10 She says I never felt I could write until my father was gone 15 Mailer tells Mike Lennon that writing this memoir was a second analysis for me and it was instrumental in helping her understand her complex emotions toward her father and her mother 6 Writing the memoir was a way of bridging the distance between her and Norman and she says bringing him back bringing him close to me 10 In Another Life grapples with complex relationships especially one between a child and her famous father and ultimately leads to redemption and a more complex understanding of Mailer herself and her relationship with her father 14 This memoir humanizes her experiences with her father through as critic Nicole DePolo writes sharp insights honed by her career as a psychoanalyst 16 Mailer recounts the more intense and painful moments with her father and his public life but also depicts the more private and personal details of their relationship 16 According to BookTrib even well known incidents like Norman s stabbing of his second wife Adele known as the Trouble his participation in the 1971 Town Hall his disastrous support of Jack Henry Abbott s parole and his sexual interests and infidelities are given new perspective and treated with greater humanity through Susan s eyes 14 She ultimately had to work through a largely negative view of her father who had come to sympathize with many of her father s opponents particularly women 17 Bonnie Culver calls Place a vulnerable funny and tough memoir that pulls no punches and gives access to very painful and long buried feelings 18 Mailer credits her own 10 year clinical analysis for a deeper understanding about her relationship with her parents that led to the compassionate approach of her memoir 10 Kirkus Reviews calls In Another Place an affable memoir that would be of superficial interest to aficionados of Norman Mailer 2 while DePolo avers that the memoir uses crisp vibrant prose that captures the essence of moments that are both remarkable and universally resonant 16 Professional life editWhile all of her other siblings went into the arts Susan Mailer became a psychoanalyst and educator 19 Mailer has taught at Universidad Catolica de Chile Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad Diego Portales Mailer has published in academic journals both in Spanish and English and co founded the Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago She is a member of various professional associations like the International Psychoanalytic Association and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy She serves on the Executive Board of the Norman Mailer Society and has published in The Mailer Review 20 Mailer runs her own private psychoanalytic practice in Santiago Chile 11 Personal life editSusan Mailer met her husband Marco in Mexico City in 1975 3 They were married in 1980 and have since lived in Santiago Chile 21 She has nine siblings 22 three grown children and four grandchildren 14 See also editNorman Mailer Norman Mailer Society The Mailer ReviewReferences edit Lennon 2013 p 121 a b c Kirkus Reviews 2019 a b c Myers 2020 Lennon 2013 p 134 Mailer 2019 pp 4 5 a b c Lennon 2019 Mailer 2019 p 18 Mailer 2019 pp 139 45 Mailer 2019 pp 163 64 a b c d Funke 2019 a b c d Irwin 2019 Mailer 2019 p 99 Mailer 2019 pp 244 45 a b c d BookTrib 2019 Odell 2020 p 2 a b c DePolo 2019 Odell 2020 p 3 Culver 2018 p 256 Lennon 2013 pp 615 16 About the Norman Mailer Society Norman Mailer Society Project Mailer 2019 Retrieved November 22 2019 Mailer 2019 p 215 Mailer 2019 p 222 Bibliography editBookTrib November 4 2019 In Another Place Paints Portrait of Norman Mailer as a Father BookTrib Retrieved November 6 2019 Culver Bonnie 2018 Patrolling No Man s Land Living on the Border The Mailer Review 12 1 265 65 DePolo Nicole October 19 2019 Review In Another Place With and Without my Father Norman Mailer by Susan Mailer Hippocampus Magazine Retrieved October 20 2019 Engster Jim host October 21 2019 Kim Neustrom Lydia Pine Susan Mailer Talk Louisiana WRKF Funke Erika host November 8 2019 Susan Mailer Art Scene WVIA Irwin Shelley October 21 2019 Susan Mailer WGVU Public Media Grand Rapids MI Retrieved December 4 2019 Kirkus Reviews November 5 2019 Review In Another Place With and Without My Father Norman Mailer Kirkus Retrieved December 4 2019 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint ref duplicates default link Lennon J Michael October 1 2019 INTERVIEW Susan Mailer author of In Another Place With and Without My Father Norman Mailer Hippocampus Magazine Retrieved October 2 2019 2013 Norman Mailer A Double Life New York Simon and Schuster ISBN 978 1439150214 OCLC 873006264 Mailer Susan 2019 In Another Place With and Without My Father Norman Mailer Northampton House Press ISBN 978 1937997977 Myers Marc January 7 2020 Susan Mailer Remembers Road Trips and Bullfights With Her Famous Father The Wall Street Journal Retrieved January 7 2020 Milam Stan host October 25 2019 Susan Mailer Author of In Another Place and Daughter of Norman Stan Milam Show WCLO Odell Michael January 29 2020 I felt liberated by my father s death The Times London pp 2 3 Retrieved January 29 2020 External links edit nbsp Biography portal Official website Susan Mailer s writing on Project Mailer Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Susan Mailer amp oldid 1132940995, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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