Erich Simenauer was born in 1901 in Gleiwitz, Silesia, and was buried in 1988 in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin. Thus he belongs by origin to what Eliade called ‘those’ times, that mythical pre-war period of persecution and emigration. These Journeys between Continents (the excellent title under which his works have been collected) and psychoanalysis together formed his destiny. The editor, Hermanns—the spiritus historicus of the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis—plausibly associates his love of history with ‘ancestor worship’. In this spirit, and in the awareness that reverence of this kind is the precondition of continuity and future itself, he has produced an exemplary edition. He has shared this Hesiodian task with Beland, whereby Hermanns deals with ‘the life’ of Simenauer, and Beland ‘the works’. When Simenauer describes paintings, for instance Savinio’s Annunciation or H. Henry Gowa’s La Retraite, colour reproductions naturally are provided. Journeys between Continents sounds like the