What is an “incompletely constructed object”?

Question

Goetz\'s Java Concurrency in Practice, page 41, mentions how this reference can escape during construction. A \"don\'t do this\" example:

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Answer 1

Another problem arises when you subclass ThisEscape, and the child class invokes this consructor. The implicit this reference in the EventListener would have an incompletely constructed object.