@unpublished{cogprints1084,
          volume = {Submit},
          number = {ted},
          author = {Maxson J. McDowell},
          editor = {Joseph Cambray and Jean Knox},
           title = {The Landscape of Possibility: A Dynamic Systems Perspective on Archetype and Change},
       publisher = {Blackwell},
         journal = {Journal of Analytical Psychology: An International Quarterly of Jungian Practice and Theory},
            year = {2000},
        keywords = {complex dynamic system, self organization, emergent, representational redescription, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, implicit memory, a priori, co-evolution, fitness landscape, Daniel Stern, intersubjective, heterochrony, Plato, Jungian analysis, personification, archetype, image, evolutionary psychology, dream analysis, mythology, spiritual.},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/1084/},
        abstract = {{\ensuremath{<}}p{\ensuremath{>}}Pre-existing possibility is recognized in complexity theory (for example, by John Holland: 1995, 27-28) and in cognitive science (for example, by Jeffrey Elman et. al.: 1998, 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, however, a pre-existing possibility (archetype) may enter consciousness. It then plays a double role. It had always acted as an unconscious organizing principle; when it reaches consciousness it challenges the conscious identity and may stimulate new development. Clinical evidence is given, together with evidence from biology and from cognitive neuroscience.{\ensuremath{<}}/p{\ensuremath{>}}  

{\ensuremath{<}}p{\ensuremath{>}}Current 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.{\ensuremath{<}}/p{\ensuremath{>}}

{\ensuremath{<}}p{\ensuremath{>}}These 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.{\ensuremath{<}}/p{\ensuremath{>}}}
}

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