?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Landscape+of+Possibility%3A+A+Dynamic+Systems+Perspective+on+Archetype+and+Change&rft.creator=McDowell%2C+Maxson+J.&rft.subject=Clinical+Psychology&rft.description=%3Cp%3EPre-existing+possibility+is+recognized+in+complexity+theory+(for+example%2C+by+John+Holland%3A+1995%2C+27-28)+and+in+cognitive+science+(for+example%2C+by+Jeffrey+Elman+et.+al.%3A+1998%2C+111-113).+A+self-organized+dynamic+system+makes+manifest+a+pre-existing+possibility.+The+whirlpool+is+an+example.+The+human+personality+must+also+be+a+dynamic+system.+In+the+personality%2C+however%2C+a+pre-existing+possibility+(archetype)+may+enter+consciousness.+It+then+plays+a+double+role.+It+had+always+acted+as+an+unconscious+organizing+principle%3B+when+it+reaches+consciousness+it+challenges+the+conscious+identity+and+may+stimulate+new+development.+Clinical+evidence+is+given%2C+together+with+evidence+from+biology+and+from+cognitive+neuroscience.%3C%2Fp%3E++%0A%0A%3Cp%3ECurrent+psychoanalytic+theory+recognizes+that+the+personality+can+only+exist+(and+can+only+change)+within+an+intersubjective+field+of+other+personalities.+But+the+personality+is+a+dynamic+system.+Complexity+theory+shows+that+such+systems+change+by+co-evolving+within+a+field+of+mutually+interacting+dynamic+systems.%3C%2Fp%3E%0A%0A%3Cp%3EThese+two+concepts+(of+pre-existing+possibility+and+of+change+within+an+intersubjective+field+of+co-evolving+dynamic+systems)+are+integrated.+Their+relevance+to+mythology+and+to+clinical+work+is+discussed.%3C%2Fp%3E&rft.publisher=Blackwell&rft.contributor=Cambray%2C+Joseph&rft.contributor=Knox%2C+Jean&rft.date=2000&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1084%2F1%2FJap_9.html&rft.identifier=++McDowell%2C+Maxson+J.++(2000)+The+Landscape+of+Possibility%3A+A+Dynamic+Systems+Perspective+on+Archetype+and+Change.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1084%2F