ABSTRACT
The Dutch psychotherapist Hubert Hermans and associates presented the `dialogical self' model in a book (Hermans and Kempen, 1993) and numerous journal-papers (e.g. Hermans, 1999, 2001a, 2001b; Hermans et al., 1992). To date, Hermans seems to be the only major postmodern psychologist to make contact with the Jungian world. When he began to disseminate his theory, he published also in the Journal of Analytical Psychology (Hermans, 1993). A decade later, the Jungian analyst John Beebe (2002) contributed to a Special Issue of Theory and Psychology that Hermans edited as a guest editor. Contact does not always mean a dialogue, however. Hermans' paper and Beebe's review provide a narrative bridge (not a synthesis) between Jungian and postmodern perspectives, but it is a bridge that should make us aware of the chasm between them.
