ABSTRACT
Analytical psychologists in London have increased their interest in reconstruction as an effective tool in reductive analysis. Frieda Fordham and Michael Fordham have made a number of theoretical and clinical references to its use in the treatment of regressed and other patients. Freud used the word construction, and sometimes reconstruction, in his essay on the Rat Man, and specifically reconstruction in a late essay on technique. Klauber discusses reconstruction in the course of a study of the relation of psychoanalysis to both scientific and historical method. A private communication by Michael Fordham has made the realization that Jung in his description of the emergence of the self as a cultural phenomenon in history did in fact use reconstruction in an unforgettable and brilliantly creative way. It is unclear whether Jung thought specifically in terms of the kind of reconstruction is an essential tool in the analysis of individuals that can lead to synthesis and the emergence of the self.
