For reasons that remain in good part obscure to me, Erik Erikson's thinking appears still to be on the periphery of today's psychoanalysis. The worthy objective of Ideas and Identities: The Life and Work of Erik Erikson is to try to establish Erikson more centrally within the profession. I think that Wallerstein is right in being convinced that “no single psychoanalyst has had a more profound impact on our twentieth-century culture and world than he. Indeed very few analysts have reshaped psychoanalytic perspectives to the extent that he did” (p. 1). After Erikson's death in 1994, when he had come close to being 92, Wallerstein organized a San Francisco day-long symposium in 1995 in order to commemorate and celebrate the life and work of Erikson. The proceedings of that symposium made up one issue of the journal Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought and has been reprinted here along with four of Erikson's own articles.