Re: Enantodromia

From: "Tim May" <butsuri@...>
>  > > 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
>  >
> So that's what it means.  Aldiss uses it repeatedly in his
> _Helliconia_ trilogy (along with the mysterious "eotemporal", which
> I've mentioned here before) but his definition is less helpful -
> something like "the process by which things are converted into their
> opposites".
That's the definition I'm more familiar with.
Perseus though defines it as "running contrary ways"...  The word is just
<enantios> "opposite" plus <dromia>, which I think is something like "running,
racing"...


    *Muke!
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