Both Uses of
ambivalent
in
A Sketch of the Past
- It was only the other day when I read Freud for the first time, that I discovered that this violently disturbing conflict of love and hate is a common feeling; and is called ambivalence.†
- Was it not the origin of the love half of my ambivalent feeling?†
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Definition:
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(ambivalent) having mixed feelings about something -- such as when part of you wants to do something and part of you does not