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Definition of Ambivalency

1. Noun. Mixed feelings or emotions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambivalency

Literary usage of Ambivalency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
""ambivalency, which gives two opposed emotional expressions to the same idea, and would regard that idea as positive and negative at the same time. ..."

2. Foundations of pyschiatry [sic] by William Alanson White (1921)
"CHAPTER III THE DYNAMICS OF THE ORGANISM The Canon of Physiology (The Conflict)—ambivalency In the last chapter it was shown that the organism is not a mere ..."

3. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"He has demonstrated what he calls the ambivalency of ... Along with this ambivalency there is an ... Assuming the hypothesis of ambivalency and ..."

4. The Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism by Eugen Bleuler (1912)
"... and ambivalency in themselves bring about only an equalization of correct thoughts and conflicts with their oppo- sites. In negativism, however, these ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"This ambivalency leads even in normal people to difficulties of decision and ... A certain degree of ambivalency is always connected with sexuality and ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"We have a further recent development of this same character, the path of opposites, as it has been called, in Bleuler's5 principles of ambivalency and ..."

7. Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis by William Alanson White (1916)
"Motion meets resistance in the opposite direction (ambivalency), the conjunction of two forces striving in opposite directions (the conflict), one succeeds ..."

8. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"This seems to me to be the real explanation of the profound ambivalency that runs through the whole of such patients' love-life. ..."

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