Ambivalence is the way we recognise that someone or something has become significant to us. This means that we are ambivalent about ambivalence, about love and hate and sex and pleasure and each other and ourselves, and so on; wherever there is an object of desire there must be ambivalence.
Psychoanalyst Adam Philips – possibly the Carl Jung of our time – on the paradox of self-criticism. Also see Phillips on being too much for ourselves and why frustration is necessary for satisfaction in love.
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