Jungian Therapy, Jungian Analysis, New York

Ambivalence

from Jung Lexicon by Daryl Sharp

Ambivalence. A state of mind where every attitude or anticipated course of action is counterbalanced by its opposite. (See also conflict andopposites.)

Ambivalence is associated in general with the influence of unconscious complexes, and in particular with the psychological functions when they have not been differentiated.