The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
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Meaning of "enantiodromia" in the English dictionary
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WHAT DOES ENANTIODROMIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Enantiodromia
Enantiodromia is a principle introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung that the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its opposite. It is similar to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system in order to restore balance. When things get to their extreme, they turn into their opposite. However, in Jungian terms, a thing psychically transmogrifies into its Shadow opposite, in the repression of psychic forces that are thereby cathected into something powerful and threatening. This can be anticipated as well in the principles of traditional Chinese religion - as in Taoism and yin-yang. Though "enantiodromia" was coined by Jung, it is implied in the writings of Heraclitus. In fr. 126, for example, Heraclitus says "cold things warm, warm things cool, wet things dry and parched things get wet." It also seems implicit in other of his sayings, like "war is father of all, king of all", "they do not know that the differing/opposed thing agrees with itself; harmony is reflexive, like the bow and the lyre".
The translations of enantiodromia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enantiodromia» in English.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENANTIODROMIA» OVER TIME
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enantiodromia
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James Hillman
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENANTIODROMIA»
Discover the use of enantiodromia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enantiodromia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dionysian Self: C.G. Jung's Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche
das Auseinandergerissensein des Zagreus, das auch Nietzsche zu Beginn
seiner Geisteskrankheit erfuhr' ['Enantiodromia means being torn asunder into
pairs of opposites . . . being torn asunder like Zagreus. This was what Niettsche ...
Paul Bishop, 1995
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Chaos And Complexity: Implications For Psychological Theory ...
And again, Jung seemed to contradict himself by establishing the concept of
enantiodromia, by conceiving the possibility of equilibrium as attaining the self (
Biitz, 1992a, 1992d). This contradiction is not so easy to deal with, and given
Jung's ...
Michael R. Butz, 1997
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Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons: Alternative Horizons
The first since Hughes' death, this collection gathers essays by most major international Hughes scholars, challenging traditional critical reception and acknowledging the impossibility of studying Hughes without reference to Plath.
Joanny Moulin, 2005
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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
posite through enantiodromia. Thus God works and wins within the fallen
entropic creation of the disintegrating “splitting” dialectic to win us one and all in
the end, by different routes. Thus the cosmic game between God and his
adversary ...
Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem, Pamela Jackson, 2011
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Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, ...
This confusing and dangerous state will persist until an enantiodromia, or a
reversal in the flow of psychic energy, is effected — until the "third option" of the
transcendent function presents itself — and the puer is able to land his feet safely
on ...
Sally Porterfield, Keith Polette, Tita French Baumlin, 2009
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The Transcendent Function: Jung's Model of Psychological ...
He noted that it went back at least as far as the ancient Greek philosopher
Heraclitus, who enunciated the principle of enantiodromia, meaning "being torn
asunder into pairs of opposites" (1943/ 1953, p. 73): Old Heraclitus . . .
discovered the ...
Jeffrey C. Miller, 2004
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Enantiodromia by Jani Christou ; And, An Original ...
Abstract.
Aristocles Carastathis, 1988
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The Stock of Available Reality: R.P. Blackmur and John Berryman
Further ... it is an enantiodromia, the shocked condition, the turning point, where a
thing becomes its own opposite, than which there is no place at once more
terrifying and more fortifying to find oneself in. Feeling and sensation and intuition
...
James D. Bloom, 1984
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Imaginal Reality: Journey to the Voids
To speak to the mechanics of living with immediate experience divided against
itself, we turn to Jung's concept of enantiodromia. Enantiodromia is that force
about which we learn when we watch a tragic hero trot himself up to the height of
his ...
Aaron B. Daniels, 2011
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Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind
At such times, the tendency towards enantiodromia is to be observed.
Enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, is a psychological law given its name by
Heraclitus (Jung, 1953 [1917], par. 111). He meant by it that, sooner or later,
everything runs ...
2008
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENANTIODROMIA»
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White Noise. // Who Will Be Dallas-Fort Worth's Next Leon Bridges?
Meanwhile, in video news, Squanto made his directorial debut, helming the clip for The Longshots' "Enantiodromia." That song, we should ... «Central Track, Jul 15»
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Rules of Desire
This isn't because desire is bad, however—it's because, as psychiatrist Carl Jung noted with his “principle of enantiodromia,” the abundance of ... «India Currents, Feb 15»
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Newcastle band EnterTheLexicon hope record deal will be big break
... last year but have re-recorded tracks Do You Feel The Same, I Am Not You, Full Moon and Enantiodromia, as well as two extra bonus tracks. «ChronicleLive, May 14»
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Redefining the Mother Nature Myth
It is what [Carl] Jung called an enantiodromia, which is a defensive reversal of a myth into its opposite.” As an example of this phenomenon, she ... «Ecology Global Network, Apr 14»
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Dems should look to Jim Webb in 2016
There is a law in politics derived from the writings of Heraclitus called "enantiodromia." It means the one begets the other: U.S.S.R. vs. U.S.A. ... «The Hill, Apr 14»
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Susan Cheever elegantly blends biography, memoir and cultural …
... disagreeable about Cummings, she points out some quirks of character (his temper), his contrariness (“enantiodromia” is the term she uses), ... «The Plain Dealer, Feb 14»
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'Linder: Femme/Objet' exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Photography: Adrien Dirand. From left: 'Monogenes', 'Deceptio Visus', 'Puella Aeternus' and 'Enantiodromia', all from 2008. Courtesy of Stuart ... «wallpaper.com, Feb 13»
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Phone Homer is the Modern Woman's Iliad
That's an instance of enantiodromia, which is a Greek word meaning “Mitt Romney on public health care.” I'm going to compare Ellsworth to ... «The SunBreak, Mar 12»
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The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
It was a stunning enantiodromia the likes of which I couldn't have fantasized in my most wine-fueled delusions. On Super Bowl Sunday in 2000, ... «Huffington Post, Feb 12»
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The Long Climb and Steep Descent of Legg Mason's Top Stock Picker
A discussion with him might cover astrophysics and ant colonies, meteorology and baseball, the science of poker playing, and "enantiodromia," ... «Wall Street Journal, Nov 11»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Enantiodromia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/enantiodromia>. May 2024 ».
