title: Jungian constructivism and the value of uncertainty.
abstract: Introducing the basic assumptions of constructivism as a philosophical position, this paper illustrates how Jung's psychology-especially complex, archetype and transcendent function-is consonant with constructivism. Further, the paper explores some clinical implications of constructivism by reviewing the problems of chronic projective-identification in a stalemated analytic case, drawing on the contributions of Winnicott, Ogden and Modell in expanding our understanding of, and facility with, the transcendent function.
authors.affiliation: University of Vermont, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Young-Eisendrath
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007602:Jungian Theory; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011385:Projection; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D014167:Transference, Psychology