Toward a new beginning; infancy, childhood, youth -- Vienna years; psychoanalysis as a calling, 1927-33 -- "The Making of an American"; from Homburger to Erikson, 1933-39 -- A cross-cultural mosaic; childhood and society -- Lives in cycle; childhood and society II -- Voice and authenticity; the 1950's -- Professor and public intellectual; the 1960's -- Global prophet; Erikson's truth -- Public and private matters of old age -- "The shadow of nonbeing".