Gergen, Confluence, and his Turbulent, Relational Ontology: The Constitution of Our Forms of Life within Ceaseless, Unrepeatable, Intermingling Movements

In Gergen (1994), Ken Gergen made what has become an infamous claim with respect to social constructionism, that “… constructionism is ontologically
mute. Whatever is simply is. There is no foundational description to be made about an ‘out there’ as opposed to an ‘in here’,
about experience or material” (p.72); in other words, that there is simply no escape from the world of discourse. Yet from
his first notable contribution to the radical literature in psychology (Gergen, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
26, 309–320, 1973), he has argued for the fact that we live our lives embedded in the turbulent flow of a number of intermingling activities.
Finally, in his latest work (Gergen 2009), he embraces fully a turbulent ontology in his claim that all our activities occur within confluences of relating.