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ambivalent, a.|æmˈbɪvələnt|
[f. ambivalence, after equivalent a.]
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by ambivalence; having either or both of two contrary or parallel values, qualities or meanings; entertaining contradictory emotions (as love and hatred) towards the same person or thing; acting on or arguing for sometimes one and sometimes the other of two opposites; equivocal. (a) In Psychology.
1916C. E. Long tr. Jung's Analytical Psychol. vi. 200 Tendencies, under the stress of emotions, are balanced by their opposites—thus giving an ambivalent character to their expression. 1920P. M. Blanchard Adolescent Girl (1921) v. 125 A second case where the falsehoods were..the result of ambivalent desire for and fear of the erotic life. 1922J. Riviere tr. Freud's Introd. Lect. Psycho-Analysis ii. xv. 194 The coincidence of opposites in the dream-work is analogous to what is called the antithetical sense of primal words in the oldest languages. The philologist, R. Abel..begs us not..to imagine that there was any ambiguity in what one person said to another by means of ambivalent words of this sort. 1924A. A. Brill tr. Bleuler's Textbk. Psychiatry ii. 126 It is chiefly ambivalent complexes that influence pathology. 1954Listener 30 Sept. 523/2 Our deeper urges are strangely ambivalent, ready to spend themselves on love or hate, altruism or destruction.
(b) In literary and general use.
1929B. Russell Marriage & Morals xiii. 140 Christianity..has always had an ambivalent attitude towards the family. 1939L. Trilling M. Arnold iv. 123 The story of ambivalent love is a characteristic one of the 19th century. 1947C. S. Lewis Miracles xiv. 151 Death is..what some modern people would call ‘ambivalent’. It is Satan's great weapon and also God's great weapon; it is holy and unholy; our supreme disgrace and our only hope. 1957D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 196 Where Rilke is concerned..Auden's attitude in his poetry is ambivalent. He cannot help disapproving the application, but..he cannot help praising the technique. 1958A. E. Dyson in Ess. & Stud. 53 Irony is..the most ambivalent of modes, constantly changing colour and texture. 1958J. Press Chequer'd Shade v. 93 Some readers obviously derive from poetry which they do not comprehend a peculiar, ambivalent pleasure. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 103/2 Ambivalent-seeming relations with his brilliant Eton tutor. 1965Camb. Rev. 20 Feb. 273/1 A Ph.D. is a somewhat ambivalent acquisition: it is not always clear whether it is mentioned as a positive desideratum or a last resort. |