The Ambivalence and Complexity of Sustainability
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To begin with the meaning of ambivalence. Its dictionary definitions include the condition of ‘having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone’ (Oxford); ‘the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions etc..’ (Collins). In Freudian psychoanalysis ambivalence is manifest in love/hate relationships towards somebody or something. A condition of tension, contradiction and disagreement. How does this sense of ambivalence (there are others) then translate to thinking about the meaning and ‘steering’ of sustainability?
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تاریخ انتشار 2006