Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
Examples
“It was a stunning enantiodromia the likes of which I couldn't have fantasized in my most wine-fueled delusions.”
The Huffington Post: Rex Pickett: The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
“A discussion with him might cover astrophysics and ant colonies, meteorology and baseball, the science of poker playing, and "enantiodromia," or the restoration of balance.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Long Climb and Steep Descent of Legg Mason's Top Stock Picker
“Marie-Louise von Franz argues that alchemy as Jung deals with it enacts the inevitable enantiodromia that sets in as a result of the patriarchal rigidity of the dogma of the Trinity, which excluded the feminine because of its alliance with”
“(enantiodromia) to the patriarchal tyranny of the Roman Church in which vicarious atonement as power rather than love is replaced by active "Soul-making" in which the psyche assumes full responsibility for its own salvation.”
Lists
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MiketheViking90 adoption of beliefs opposite to those previously held Mar 21, 2011
johanna fata-morgana Jul 29, 2009
johanna greek roots....it is the
description of the highest point of the arc
of a pendulim's swing, and the
slight pause there. before it swings back to the opposite direction... great metaphor for the human condition.
Jul 29, 2009
vanishedone A Jungian concept, apparently. (I had a nice citation, but it turned out to misspell the word in question.) Oct 23, 2008
mollusque The urge to take the road less travelled? Sep 1, 2008
she Oho! So do I. Sep 1, 2008
whichbe The changing of something into its opposite. I love this concept very much. May 12, 2008