Stony Brook Congress 1986 – Lecture with Dr. Julian Jayne

In this lecture Julian Jaynes explains his connection of his work with that of F.M. Alexander. Invited to speak, he only needed to read the first page of Alexander book, Man’s Supreme Inheritance to decide to accept the invitation to speak.

Julian Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts and did his undergraduate work at Harvard and McGill, receiving both his master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Yale. After Yale, Jaynes spent several years in England working as an actor and playwright. Jaynes later returned to the states, and lectured in psychology at Princeton University from 1966 to 1990, teaching a popular class on consciousness for much of that time.