How to refer to the first object called?

I have this code:

var Pers开发者_如何学Goon = {
 "name": "",
 "changes": {
  "name to": function(value) {
   this["name"] = value;
  }
 }
}

var Josh = Object.create(Person);
Josh["changes"]["name to"]("John");

console.log(Josh.name); // nothing
console.log(Josh.changes.name); // "John"

The problem is that this above refers to Object "changes" and not object instance "Josh".

I can't replace this with Person because then it's referring to the object "Person" and not to the object instance "Josh".

Is it possible to refer to Josh's name?

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Why don't you use the more common form of Javascript OOP?

function Person() {
    this.name = "";
    this.changes = {};
    var _this = this;
    this.changes.nameTo = function(name) {
        _this.name = name;
    }
}

var Josh = new Person();
Josh.changes.nameTo("John");

console.log(Josh.name); // "John"
console.log(Josh.changes.name); // undefined

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Sadly not. You don't have any reference to an enclosing instance of the object you're in currently. You need to move the method to the outer Person object.

var Person = {
 "name": "",
 "changeNameTo": function(value) {
   this["name"] = value;
 }
}

Edit: If you absolutely want the original structure, albeit strange from an OO perspective. You need to give the inner object a reference to the outer. Programatically you can do it as below - or perhaps do it in a constructor, depending on your framework providing the Object.create() method.

var Person = {
 "name": "",
 "changes": {
  "name to": function(value) {
   this.data["name"] = value;
  }
 }
}

var Josh = Object.create(Person);
Josh.changes.data = Josh;

Josh["changes"]["name to"]("John");