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ambivalence, -ency|æmˈbɪvələns, -ənsɪ|
[ad. G. ambivalenz (Bleuler 1910–11, in Psychiatr.-neurol. Wochenschrift Nos. 18–21), after equivalence, equivalency.]
The coexistence in one person of contradictory emotions or attitudes (as love and hatred) towards a person or thing.
The examples in β illustrate the diverse applications of the word in literary and general works: a balance or combination or coexistence of opposites; oscillation, fluctuation, variability, etc. Quot. 1948 shows a spec. techn. sense.
(α) In Psychology.
1912Lancet 21 Dec. 1730 ‘Ambivalency’, a condition which gives to the same idea two contrary feeling-tones and invests the same thought simultaneously with both a positive and a negative character. 1913Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 880 This ambivalency leads, even with normal people, to difficulties of decision and to inner conflict. 1916C. E. Long tr. Jung's Analytical Psychol. vi. 200 The author [sc. Bleuler] presents us with a new psychological conception..viz. the concept of ambivalency... This must not be taken as meaning that every positive psychic action simply calls up its opposite. 1924A. A. Brill tr. Bleuler's Textbk. Psychiatry xiii. 382 The synchronous laughing and crying are a partial manifestation of schizophrenic ambivalence. 1927Henderson & Gillespie Text-Bk. Psychiatry ix. 197 In Bleuler's opinion, ambivalence is simply one aspect of the not yet fully understood disorder of association which he supposes to be the fundamental defect in schizophrenic thinking.
β1939L. Trilling M. Arnold iv. 123 Rousseau's Confessions had laid the ground for the understanding of emotional ambivalence. 1948M. Joos Acoustic Phonetics 23 The principle of ambivalence, which states that any thing which is capable of emitting acoustic power linearly will also absorb acoustic power according [to] the same rules that govern its behavior as an emitter. 1953Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Oct. 645/2 What social anthropologists call ‘plural belonging’, what literary critics call ambivalence of attitude, and what the proverb calls having your cake and eating it, is a common human phenomenon. 1956A. L. Rowse Early Churchills p. vii, There is much to be said for a certain judicious ambivalence. 1959Times Rev. Industry Mar. 4/3 There is an ambivalence in the claims on promotional moneys, for the furtherance of distribution on the one hand and for the extension of advertising on the other. 1963Oxf. Mag. 6 June 353/1 The ambivalence of Arnold's attitude to the Romantics. |