Ambivalence
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...coexistence of two opposing drives, desires, feelings, or emotions toward the same person, object, or goal. The ambivalent...others being autism and disturbances of affect (i.e., emotion) and of association (i.e., thought disorders). Bleuler...feelings of love and hate toward the same person. This specific meaning has attained common usage by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts...