Maria Bergmann has been an important role model for several generations of psychoanalysts, much admired and sought after as an analyst, a teacher, a writer, and a colleague. It is an honor and a privilege for me to review this collection of some of her many writings, truly a psychoanalytic “journey” for the twenty-first century. Bergmann is an extraordinarily creative thinker, well-versed in and at home in the classical psychoanalytic tradition, but as is evident here, not bound by it. She has been influenced by Hartmann's ego psychology, Mahler's developmental