单词 | enantiodromia |
释义 | enantiodromian. The process by which something becomes its opposite, and the subsequent interaction of the two: applied esp. to the adoption by an individual or by a community, etc., of a set of beliefs, etc., opposite to those held at an earlier stage. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > process by which opposites interact enantiodromia1917 1917 D. Hecht in C. E. Long tr. C. G. Jung Coll. Papers Analyt. Psychol. (ed. 2) xiv. 415 Heraclitus..discovered the most wonderful of all psychological laws, namely, the regulating function of antithesis. He termed this ‘enantiodromia’ (clashing together), by which he meant that at some time everything meets with its opposite. 1917 D. Hecht in C. E. Long tr. C. G. Jung Coll. Papers Analyt. Psychol. (ed. 2) xiv. 417 Enantiodromia is the being torn asunder into the pairs of opposites. 1923 H. G. Baynes tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. Types xi. 542 I use the term enantiodromia to describe the emergence of the unconscious opposite... A good example of enantiodromia is seen in the psychology of Saul of Tarsus and his conversion to Christianity. 1943 E. L. Mascall He who Is x. 128 Islam is submission... And by that enantiodromia, which is so marked a feature of human activity, Mohammedanism becomes the most militant religion in history, for once the believer has made his submission he..sees himself as an instrument of the divine ruthlessness. 1959 R. F. C. Hall tr. Neumann Archetypal World Henry Moore 4 The dialectal law of Heraclitus, the law of enantiodromia, according to which any given position is always superseded by its negation. Derivatives enantioˈdromiacal adj. ΚΠ 1944 Brit. Jrnl. Med. Psychol. 20 214/1 Just as the repressions that went with the increasing dogmatism and formalism of the Middle Ages had produced the enantiodromiacal reaction of the Renaissance, so the repressions of the age of materialism and respectability produced its deadly challenge out of itself. enantioˈdromic adj. resulting from enantiodromia. ΚΠ 1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Sept. 612/5 We are reminded also of that other—excruciatingly enantiodromic—answer..: ‘Nes. Yo.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1917 |
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