Speaking of Jung – Episode 84: Jenny Yates

Jenny Yates, Ph.D. is a Zürich-trained Jungian analyst and professor of philosophy and religion in Wilmington, North Carolina.

She received a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a doctorate in religion and philosophy from Syracuse University. She later went on to Switzerland to train as a Jungian analyst, earning a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich.

She began her career at the University of Virginia Medical School as a psychiatric social worker where her task was to discern how brain diseases affected the mind. Upon meeting the psychosomatic consultation team (two of whom were Freudian analysts) she assisted them in discerning the relationship between the mind, brain, and body and moved from the philosophical study to its practical application.

After completing her Ph.D., she taught philosophy and religion for two years at Colgate University and went on to a full professorship at Wells College in New York where she chaired the department of religion and was a professor for twenty seven years.

While training as a Jungian analyst, she was appointed a Visiting Associate at Professor Roger Sperry’s lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where she taught him the history of philosophical views of the mind/brain relation, and he taught her split-brain research, for which he received a Nobel Prize in 1981. This work became her thesis for graduation from the Jung Institute where her adviser was Jung’s closest colleague and disciple, C.A. Meier.

Dr. Yates practiced as a Jungian analyst in New York for ten years and was a faculty member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. From 2012-2018 she served as president of the North Carolina Society of Jungian Analysts. Since 2003, she has been a Visiting Distinguished Scholar in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she is a part-time lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.

She is the author of Psyche & the Split-Brain, co-editor (with Prof. Lee W. Bailey) of The Near-Death Experience, and editor of the Encountering Jung Series volume, Jung on Death & Immortality.

This interview was recorded on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. It’s 01:10:06 long and 61.5 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music.

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SHOW NOTES

Jung on Death & Immortality Selected and introduced by Jenny Yates, Ph.D. (includes excerpts from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Memories Dreams Reflections, and Letters Vols. 1 & 2)

Psychology & the Occult Extracts from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung (includes his dissertation, “On the Psychology & Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena”)

The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung

The Black Books by C.G. Jung

Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man & Civilization by Edward B. Tylor

Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl

Office of Continuing & Professional Education University of North Carolina Wilmington

The Near-Death Experience: A Reader Edited by Jenny Yates & Lee Bailey (includes her chapter, “Being of Light: Dreaming the Vision Onward”)

C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 2: 1951-1961 Includes Jung’s mention of his dinners with Albert Einstein on pp. 108-109

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle by C.G. Jung

The Tibetan Book of the Dead First complete translation; introductory commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Symbolic Life by C.G. Jung (includes his essay, “On Resurrection”)

The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz

The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche