Ambitendency
ambivalence, especially when acted out; a to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
historical examples
disposing causes of negativistic phenomena are: the ambitendency by which every impulse is accompanied by its opposite.
collected papers on -n-lytical psychology c. g. jung
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