The coexistence of contradictory emotions, attitudes, ideas, or desires with respect to a particular person, object, or situation. Ordinarily, the ambivalence is not fully conscious and suggests psychopathology only when present in an extreme form.
Simultaneous attractions to and repulsion from an object, person, or situation.
The condition of holding opposite feelings (such as love and hate) for the same person or object. Excessive and prevalent ambivalence was thought by Bleuler to be a feature of schizophrenia.
The psychological state in which a person concurrently hates and loves the same object or person.
Coexistence of contradictory feelings about an object, person, or idea.
The capacity to simultaneously harbor conflicting emotional states, such as love and hate, toward the same object or action.