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Enantodromia

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Sunday, December 15, 2002, 19:33
I love this word!  I think I shall borrow it into Teonaht!

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "michael poxon" <m.poxon@...>


> Yep. The Greeks had a word for it (Aristotle of all people, the old > misogynist!) called it Enantiodromia, the idea of 'swinging too far the > other way'. I think C.G.Jung was rather taken with the idea. > Mike

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