enantiodromia

English

Noun

enantiodromia (countable and uncountable, plural enantiodromias)

1. (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:

     If one wishes to gain an understanding of how humanity could shift from the one to the other, one needs to have an understanding of the enantiodromia (a movement that turns into its opposite) of the development of gathering into agriculture.

Derived terms

• enantiodromic

 

Portuguese

Noun

enantiodromia f (plural enantiodromias)

1. enantiodromia