1. A psychological or philosophical principle in which opposite forces or tendencies eventually transform into each other; the emergence of the opposite quality when an extreme is reached.
Usage: psychology; philosophy; Jungian psychology; rare; formal

Examples

• Jung described enantiodromias as a natural law where the unconscious compensates for one-sided conscious attitudes.
• The concept of enantiodromias suggests that excessive repression of an emotion may eventually lead to its explosive expression.
• In Jungian theory, enantiodromias explains how the shadow self emerges when the conscious persona becomes too rigid.
• The philosopher argued that enantiodromias demonstrates the dynamic balance inherent in human psychology.
• Historical examples of enantiodromias include revolutions that swing from one extreme ideology to its opposite.