Dictionary

enantiodromia en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐναντιοδρομία (enantiodromía, “running in a contrary direction”), from ἐναντίος (enantíos, “opposite”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The principle in Jungian psychology whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
   • 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. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:
   • By what he termed the law of enantiodromia, or the reversal into the opposite, the other function entered in, namely, feeling for the introvert, and thinking for the extravert. 2009, Sonu Shamdasani, in C. G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus, Philemon 2009, p. 210

Forms

Deriveds

enantiodromic

Relateds

enantiodrome