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Eleanor Bertine of New York died on January 3rd, 1968, in her eighty-first year. One of the earliest and most distinguished of Dr. Jung's followers in the United States, she was also a warm and genuine human being whose presence will be missed by all who knew her.
Eleanor Bertine was deeply committed to life and, in her pursuits of consciousness never lost sight of her indebtedness to the man whose ideas under-girded that commitment. She devoted herself to the task of understanding and testing empirically the implications of Jung's thought, in her personal life and in her 40 years of practice as an analyst. In lecturing and in spontaneous discussions she had, as we all know, a rare gift for clear and succinct statement. Her two books, Human relationships published first in 1958 when she was entering the final decade of her life, and the collection of essays and lectures that appeared a week or two after her death, attest to the value she placed on the human experience. To her, as to Jung, the prima materia was to be found in the daily encounter with life. She had a special gift for bringing Jung's insights to bear on the practical problems in human relatedness.
To fully appreciate her life's work, or that of any pioneer in depth psychology for that matter, it is necessary to see her against the background of the cultural era into which she was born, and the tradition in which she was reared. She was born and reared in New York City in a solidly rooted American family of the Victorian era. Her parents did not consider college