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enantiodromia|ɛnˌæntɪəʊˈdrəʊmɪə|
[a. Gr. ἐναντιοδροµία running in contrary ways, f. ἐναντίος opposite + δρόµος running.]
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. Hence enantioˈdromiacal, enantioˈdromic adjs., resulting from enantiodromia.
1917D. Hecht in C. E. Long tr. Jung's Coll. Papers Anal. 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. Ibid. 417 Enantiodromia is the being torn asunder into the pairs of opposites. 1923H. G. Baynes tr. Jung's 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. 1943E. 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. 1946Brit. Jrnl. Med. Psychol. XX. 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. 1953Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Sept. 612/5 We are reminded also of that other—excruciatingly enantiodromic—answer..: ‘Nes. Yo.’ 1959R. F. C. Hall tr. Neumann's Archetypal World of Henry Moore 4 The dialectal law of Heraclitus, the law of enantiodromia, according to which any given position is always superseded by its negation. |