Can I refer to an object in its constructor?

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Published on 2010-04-21T14:22:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 14:33 UTC
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Can I do the following?

public Manager(String userName) {
    game = new Game(userName);
    game.addManager(this);
}

The problem is that I refer to an object (this) in its constructor (before it was actually created).

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