Comments by extant_taxon

  • Antinomial theological/philosophical/psychological term meaning by opposites.

    i.e. Carl Jung contends that idividual psyches contain their own opposite, the male with an anima (female archetype) or the female with an animus (male archetype), and by this conjunction of opposites, of an eternal paradox; we exist.

    See also coinicidence of opposites.

    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NFIOpySKxw0C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=God+is+the+coincidence+of+opposites&source=bl&ots=KaKRBIt6Y7&sig=yAGIjN05fidRRNibkJBTmJCirNs&hl=en&ei=MO2iSaf6GIzIjAfWpaHgCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA24,M1

    February 24, 2009

  • Enantidromia: or play of opposites, is a term of Greek origin which refers to the paradoxical phenomenon whereby something eventually turns into its opposite.

    http://www.nyaap.org/index.php/id/7/subid/47

    Enantiodromia

    Literally, "running counter to," referring to the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time.

    This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

    Enantiodromia is typically experienced in conjunction with symptoms associated with acute neurosis, and often foreshadows a rebirth of the personality.

    The grand plan on which the unconscious life of the psyche is constructed is so inaccessible to our understanding that we can never know what evil may not be necessary in order to produce good by enantiodromia, and what good may very possibly lead to evil.

    February 15, 2009

  • Enantidromia: or play of opposites, is a term of Greek origin which refers to the paradoxical phenomenon whereby something eventually turns into its opposite.

    http://www.nyaap.org/index.php/id/7/subid/47

    Enantiodromia

    Literally, "running counter to," referring to the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time.

    This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

    Enantiodromia is typically experienced in conjunction with symptoms associated with acute neurosis, and often foreshadows a rebirth of the personality.

    The grand plan on which the unconscious life of the psyche is constructed is so inaccessible to our understanding that we can never know what evil may not be necessary in order to produce good by enantiodromia, and what good may very possibly lead to evil.

    February 15, 2009